00:04what an absolutely unbelievable afternoon this is it is and i and we're here i know
00:15and before we get started i i i want to lead by example david and no you were privy to
00:22the
00:22pre-show but we talked about uh dana altman is now stepping down from oregon he's the basketball
00:28coach and mike was like well the money's not going to the basketball team and i said no it is
00:33he's got
00:33a blank check are we really doing this i just want to show i'm sorry michael you were correct
00:39no no you were correct money's going to football not going to basketball that's all anyone cares
00:45about any of these schools thinking you need to fund olympic sports when it comes to nil are on crack
00:51that's it which we're going to get to later yeah apparently is msu going to get off their crack
00:56addiction we'll find out we'll talk about the buses outside yeah listen jeff van vonderen
01:02look sparty we see a lot of people here who love you like crazy and we feel like we're losing
01:06you
01:07load them into the bus
01:11get sparty into the bus
01:14then they go i always love the cut scene too and it's the person staring out the airplane window like
01:18did you have to have the camera crew on there this person's literally at the lowest point of their life
01:23and in seat 15d is the cameraman as you look out over the mojave desert flying to rehab
01:30wait wait he's crying wait get your camera get your camera it's in the overhead get it out
01:35imagine they do this and it's actually sparty staring out the window all right we uh we got to
01:42get to this i found last night fascinating and of course it wouldn't be another day rico without
01:50another red wings report so last night in front of a uh an arena of dozens dylan larkin in the
01:58wings
01:58took the ice and dylan was was booed every time he touched the puck so of course as the sports
02:04gods
02:05would have it the wings go to a power play and what happens next is just it's the only way
02:12it could be
02:13dylan's on the power play every time he touches it he's getting booed cut scene he scores he's cheered
02:21now i think you and i have had a pretty decent position on this i'm not mad at anyone if
02:26you're mad at
02:27dylan i've had people get mad at me because i'm not the only time i was mad at dylan was
02:33the ridiculous
02:34press conference which even liam neeson and taken blushed at that was bad i'm not mad at dylan larkin
02:42i'm mad at chris illich i'm mad at this organization but last night it was interesting because the minute
02:48he scored he was cheered now you had the really good bleep talking on the ice where dylan cousins
02:55pointed to his chest like you're not the captain anymore chirping him he gets the first star he gets
03:02some cheers the question is this is it so much that you for gillen for gillen i've combined forgiven
03:11and dylan into for gillen tremendous for gilligan's island for i need my caffeine i'll get to that in a
03:18moment uh that was oh boy paul we've hit the low point we're four minutes in is it so much
03:26that you
03:27have forgiven him or it's just that somebody some villain got in the left lane and pulled way beyond
03:35dylan larkin and it's his name is chris illich because that's the part of this that i said hey
03:44i was happy dylan forced change or as a catalyst to change i understand the trade list i know that
03:49chaps people it chaps me a little bit like if you if you wanted to get traded dylan you got
03:54to give us
03:54more than three places with no cap space right but but i do think once again that that was
04:01personal i think that was that was a shot at steve but unfortunately the city became collateral damage
04:08but here's my question juxtapose last night with this and again i i wouldn't boo dylan larkin i don't
04:17have the energy to and second of all i'm i'm team larkin versus team wings like this franchise is garbage
04:23it's it's just it i'm not mad at anyone who wants out i get it if you're a purist i'm
04:29also not mad at
04:29you but look at the news today i want to juxtapose two things a report today and then what chris
04:37chris
04:37illich gave us via his chat gpt interview with wojo not linkedin wojo so frank ciravelli regarding the
04:46wings the power structure and sean horkoff's ability to do his job ready everything is done with
04:53so much oversight from ownership on offers trades anything that there is no unilateral permission
05:00for horkoff to do anything right now he has training wheels on now juxtapose that with chris's
05:08chat gpt interview with wojo when he was asked about the dysfunction of the organization quote
05:14i think it's a lot of the talking heads to be frank inside the organization things are operating
05:21perfectly well it's a bit of amusement to hear and look at that stuff close quote see this is where
05:28dylan is going to be able to earn a bit of a hall pass with i would say three of
05:34four fans there will
05:35always be your hockey purists that doesn't mean they're bad it's just original six captains don't
05:41ask for trades but i think 75 of this fan base has moved from i'm not happy with dylan
05:49but i'm much angrier at chris i want to know where you guys are at hockey elite if you were
05:56at the
05:56game if you go to a lot of games if you just love the detroit red wings where are you
06:02at because
06:03i think dylan has an opportunity now again the interview afterwards he looks like he's just
06:12i give him credit for playing i think it's a disastrous idea but he's doing it i'm a hockey
06:19player you didn't say i'm a red wing i'm a hockey player you could you could tell like if he
06:26wanted
06:26to end all of this and turn chris into the ultimate pariah he would have done the interview last night
06:32and go listen i made a mistake i got in my feelings i know i hurt a lot of people
06:37i want to stay i've
06:40informed the organization my trade request is is done and if they'll have me i'll stay and i know
06:46i gotta earn everybody in this room's trust back and i gotta earn the fans trust back i didn't think
06:50dylan was bad post game no he wasn't bad he wasn't bad but he could do that but by not
06:57doing it i know
06:58you still want to be traded so it's not that i'm totally good it's that chris has done so much
07:06damage to himself and his organization that that is simply taken up my energy does that make sense
07:13it makes a total sense i i think i'm gonna throw another element in there because i said guys the
07:20second he scores a goal you're gonna cheer no i'm gonna boo no you're not because you're a wings fan
07:25first ready oh and when he scored all of a sudden all of that hate and vitriol just
07:32whoo it was gone and you cheered him before you even realized wait i'm not supposed to like that
07:38man but wow we're a better team with him out on the ice for us i think it is i
07:43think that chris has
07:44taken the the lion's share of where the fans are and i'm not i wasn't even mad at dylan
07:52i know you want to hear him saying i want to be a wing for life and i'm sorry
07:57he doesn't know who his boss is going to be and if that's the case i can't pledge my allegiance
08:03if
08:04i don't know who the general manager is really going to be i got a substitute teacher in there
08:08right now yeah but i don't know who that person is it would be foolish on his part to say
08:14i want to
08:15be here i want to stick around because the next person in can be like nah i'm old school hockey
08:20son
08:20no and i don't make your life hard i don't want him to do that i'm saying if he wanted
08:25to win the
08:25base back it's what he'd do no i'm fine trading him because i think this team just needs a rebuild
08:30right i don't think this team will will materially compete for a stanley cup
08:36as currently constituted or even with additions but the illich thing is just
08:43i think it's taken over and rightfully so i think he's public enemy number one in a sports sense
08:49i thought his interview with wojo did him no favors then the reporting all summer and then
08:54let's be very clear the linkedin thing has stuck with people that was the ultimate let them have
08:59cake yes because here's the thing with larkin you didn't like him mike because you weren't seeing him
09:04just like you weren't seeing chris you were so the hate was building up last night you got to see
09:09him on the ice you got it all out of your system and i don't think you're right i think
09:14maybe one out
09:15of every four fans will harbor that hate and boo him every time he's out there but i think for
09:20most
09:20people they kind of got it out their system and it's chris right but chris is the one you don't
09:25see chris and that's going to keep bubbling up and just brewing and and that hate's not going to go
09:30anywhere whereas dylan okay he took it he moved on all right i don't hate you that much so where
09:38are
09:38you at with larkin he played last night scored a goal he was the first star you got both ends
09:43of the
09:43spectrum you heard him post game maybe david could bump back with a little bit of that
09:48is it is it really not as much about forgiveness with him as it is just your disdain for your
09:53owner
09:54or did something change for you last night and again i know this show has been team larkin
10:00that doesn't mean he's blameless it's just i've never been furious the only day i was pissed was the
10:07press conference i thought that was truly embarrassing you can't go out there if that's how you're going to
10:11talk yeah but like last night no i'm not i'm not surprised people cheered eventually but man he he's
10:17lucky it wasn't a full arena last night that place was empty and the booze were allowed imagine what
10:22that would have been if it was sold out that place was empty you know what note to whoever does
10:28the
10:28fun time stuff for the wings may not want to do the pass the flag around an empty arena when
10:33you don't
10:34have enough people in the stands to pass the flag to perhaps we don't run that bit last night or
10:41get a
10:42smaller flag right get yeah pass the car flag maybe go with that treat it like church and peace be
10:50with
10:50you like whose idea was that oh uh we can't do the wave why there aren't enough people chairs can't
11:05stand up you guys get in there fill in the spots interns taking seats 248-539-9797 we'll start with
11:13the wings we'll get to the lions where you at with larkin is this truly just about chris now let's
11:18have the conversation 97 one
