00:01okay we'll get back to the lions in a little bit but i want to bring this up because i
00:05know
00:05probably six people watched it or paid attention but when you talk theater of the absurd and you
00:12know where this show stands on the dylan larkin thing i think it's absurd he's here i think it's
00:17absurd he's playing i think it's absurd the team denies reality and won't take a futures driven
00:22package for him fine but here's what you're going to get in the meantime i want to play just a
00:28brief
00:28piece of audio you actually played a road game congratulations felt like the whole schedule
00:33was at home you played a road game you lost in overtime in montreal but the audio that comes
00:40along with it is pretty shocking to hear opposing fans not booing someone courting someone in real
00:49time here's montreal stance on dylan larkin
01:08all right thank you for that so they want larkin correct and he was asked about it and guess what
01:15else is gonna happen his teammates gonna get asked about it and dylan hand looked i got respect that
01:19dylan is handling this as best as he can uh there's no the only thing he did i hated was
01:24that ridiculous
01:24press conference he's taking the questions he's playing he's not dogging it on the ice it's the
01:31absurdity opposing fans courting your player in real time it's october 12th this isn't a week before
01:43the deadline this is a week into the season by the way the red wings stink but but but my
01:49point is
01:51doesn't there have to be an end point to this
01:56that's a no from rico all right no no yes and no it can't be both when it comes to
02:04the wings it can
02:05oh man yes this never should have gotten this far no there doesn't seem any sense of urgency
02:12of actually doing anything to make this thing go away because if you're the wings you have to admit
02:20that you're going to be in a full rebuild and you could probably move him to some teams because i
02:25think
02:25that there's probably more teams that would love to offer you something but guys we're going to give
02:31you a futures driven package accept that accept reality he doesn't want to be there you don't want
02:37him there and let's move on sounds simple right they won't do that that's the problem and that's so
02:45that's why the answer is yes do you think no okay so do you think wings fans are put in
02:50a position
02:50where they have to root against the team so the team has to trade him this isn't serving anyone i
02:57think
02:57wings fans are in a weird space because you saw it with the first game he got back where he
03:02gets
03:02booed booed booed oh wait he scored a score yay yeah i'm not mad at him let me be very
03:07clear i haven't
03:07been mad at him all summer i just hated the presser no the wings the wings fans to me are
03:12like the
03:12children of a bitter divorce like they they love both mom and dad but it's very uncomfortable at the
03:19dinner table just you know i i don't i'd i'd i'm gonna go eat at tommy's house i'm not eating
03:25i don't
03:25know i just would love to know where people are at with it i mean again whether fans are gonna
03:29boot a guy they're gonna chant at the guy it's all noise that's my whole point it's all just noise
03:37then you got dylan being asked after the game you know what do you think of playing for canadian
03:41it's like are we gonna do this all year until he's finally moved yes because he hasn't come out and
03:48said
03:49make it happen i want to be a wing for life i'm sorry about that he's just kind of stuck
03:54in
03:55purgatory he likes making money i'm under contract so i don't want to sit out i'll collect the checks
04:00i like my teammates i'm gonna try to help them win games but as soon as my agent calls me
04:07you know
04:08he right now he's hoping to live the life of marvin harrison jr oh wait i got pulled i'm headed
04:14to
04:14the airport and listen tell me where i'm flying to when i get there all i can offer you is
04:18every report
04:18out there the canadians have engaged on larkin they want larkin so the fans chanting it it's not
04:25like it's made up the team wants them and then you get reports larkin is open to montreal now
04:33so in real time it's like i always think about like you you think about the dylan angle of it
04:38but
04:38then you think about the organizationally look at the rest of the room simon evanson is on a milk
04:44carton dylan larkin is here against his will because he hasn't said that he wants to be here
04:50and then a team who reportedly is engaged on trying to get this guy the fans are out here i
04:57just oh
04:57it's so absurd it's crazy some producer needs to get a 30 for 30 on just everything that's happened
05:05in this city going back to scoobal and his agent and then jalen duran and all the stuff going on
05:12with
05:12the wings this is really tested detroit fans like nobody like no other time as ridiculous as it
05:21sounds i go back i hearken yes and no no yes this should be over it should be very simple
05:28but no
05:29for some reason the wings i don't even know if anybody has the power to make the trade so once
05:36again here we are but that's the problem that i have because after that game of course uh todd
05:44mcclellan is asked about it you know all this stuff and he says well i'm sick of talking about
05:48the larkin stuff too bad well the problem i have with him saying that is there's a person you can
05:53go
05:53to right now to say look i'm tired of talking about it you're the only one that can solve this
06:00get a gm in here get this situation fixed so i don't have to be asked the questions anymore how
06:06cool would that be if todd just pulled out his phone and put chris on speaker at the press conference
06:11chris answer these questions you can't i can't like you can't say that fired but i i would that would
06:17just be funny to me that would be pure theater listen i'm not trying to spend somebody else's money
06:22but todd mcclellan in his career has earned an estimated 50 million dollars from coaching hockey
06:27unless he's really bad like unless he's andre rising's accountant he he he don't need to care
06:34if todd's that tired of it he can go too i ain't mad at him i'd tip my cap like
06:38the little
06:38dare you to respect kid if mcclellan went i ain't doing this but middle of a game walks out no
06:46no at
06:47that point at the press conference chris's phone hello yeah i'm at a press conference but that's but
06:52that's the point mike that's the point if he's so tired of it if you don't get the answers you
06:58need
06:58to get it soft then just say you know what i'm done that's that's how you solve not talking about
07:05it todd well i i agree and that was why i still don't get the martyrdom that we're doing with
07:11steve eiserman if steve had had enough leave you took the job so you you weren't going to get
07:17bothered the minute you felt like you were being limited walk you're steve eiserman walk yeah they
07:23had a hundred candidates not one of them pitched him a good idea on what to do at larkin where
07:27they're
07:27like hey that's pretty good we're never going to live down the hundred candidates are we we can get
07:32to a couple of the phone calls i just wanted to do a segment or two on it today because
07:35i was like
07:35hence why we circle back to yes it no this organization i know it's just doing uh find a new
07:42ring
07:43master because this is turning into a circus they don't even have adults in the room the pagnotta
07:48reporter cervelli last week basically sean horkoff needs a bathroom pass i'm at the point i don't
07:58want to say it i don't believe they're a playoff team maybe if they get out to like a one
08:02and seven
08:03start one and eight they would just be forced into it and that's before we get to the evanson thing
08:10if you're trying to fix and mend fences with dylan getting simon evanson back on the right side of
08:15the atlantic ocean would be a start right yeah well guess not with you none of this makes a bit
08:24of sense
