00:00uh let's talk about that wrc plus uh no we've got a lot to get to today uh jeremy styling
00:07quality golf shirt today really proud of you very nice uh also at some point david will sing
00:14the national anthem like carl lewis because that's what we were watching pre-show
00:19oh my god um we got a lot to get into the jmo stuff won't be one of them what
00:27do you want from
00:28me i don't know i i'm done whatever it's not being he's not getting charged it's done what do you
00:34want
00:34me to do i'm moving forward you're gonna be you're gonna be carolina by 30 here's your preview of the
00:39game carolina all their good players are dead go win um your preview of the game uh you saw it
00:44with
00:44the bears and the panthers i think you'll probably see 60 40 again you got fantasy players blame no
00:50but it's all look their top two corners including all pro jc horn gone right their best offensive
00:54lineman damian lewis gone jonathan brooks gone uh numb nuts jalen coker's not gonna play hey that's
00:59not the line's problem i'm just making a point to you if you were a little nervous i i just
01:03it it
01:04becomes something that if you lost this game that's going balls first into a wood chipper it's not
01:10possible it's not your problem just go play and go win this is why we don't do the schedule game
01:16it's who you play but yeah it's when you play them carolina you're gonna get the worst version of
01:21them go beat them go do you stack your wins that's all okay you want to get to the real
01:26meat and
01:27potatoes today tell me if it's a good thing that one of your best players when the season opens
01:33tomorrow isn't even on this side of the globe i'm gonna go no not a good thing for a thousand
01:40correct boop boop uh simon evanson didn't practice and well doesn't have a locker in the red wings
01:46dressing room statement from sort of kind of maybe temporary agency hire gm sean horkoff
01:53as of today simon's not practicing with the team no it's because he's practicing with his old team
01:58in sweden the organization will continue conversations with simon and his representatives
02:03uh hockey elite help me what the f is the conversation evanson reportedly wants between
02:09nine and ten million dollars a year the salary cap is going up up in a way to a point
02:14where it's
02:14going to be at about 150 million dollars sooner rather than later just pay the man his money
02:21what's the conversation there are two rfas in hockey that aren't signed one demanded a trade
02:27this summer in carolina the other evanson put that along with the fact that you're getting a lot of
02:34smoke right now dylan larkin ain't playing at all yeah he may be practicing he may be uh doing that
02:42hostage press thing there are certain people around that team he ain't gonna play and and you come
02:49back to this that if you're the hockey elite here are my two questions and rico i'm being very serious
02:55about this because it's not my job to tell people what to do with their with their money go do
03:00you
03:00it's the same thing the merlin or thing don't ask me to like it you can do whatever you want
03:05i
03:05wouldn't be caught dead there okay fair it's the same thing with this if you go to wings games
03:11are you still going is this good for you so you mean if you got tickets are you still gonna
03:17i'm
03:18asking for people who like to use their money to go to wings games are you still going to do
03:23that
03:23because what the wings are showing you right now is what rudderless circuses look like this is there
03:30there is a leadership void here and i will continue to say this chris illich needs to go
03:38to a microphone and answer for this this is your kitchen you're responsible for the food coming out
03:46of it this is your store i don't want to hear about that chat gpt interview he did with wojo
03:53i'm not
03:54even convinced it's real i swear to god it feels like wojo emailed questions in and they got what is
03:59it
03:59gemini answers back rico they are about to open the season with their captain who's not a captain
04:06demanding a trade and might not be playing tomorrow friday excuse me and it depends who you talk to but
04:13there's a definite amount of smoke dylan's not going to play right then simon edmondson has wanted a
04:19contract all summer this is not something that's like um a deer jumping out in front of your car
04:26the nine to ten million dollars is not crazy town with the cap going up you thought enough of this
04:33guy you didn't put him in the quinn hughes trade right there what's the counterbalance to just as
04:39teddy kgb once said in the film rounders pay that man his money what what are you doing unless he
04:45can't
04:45make more money than the captain but here's the thing you don't have a captain i'm the captain now
04:50and in a few years it's going to be a bargain that you signed him and locked him up at
04:55nine
04:56million a year give yourself a bell light of the world founders club i i want to know from the
05:01hockey
05:02elite right here the right here right now no no runway no let it percolate phone lines are open
05:09a what the f that's my column that that's what i would do if i were a columnist today what
05:16the f
05:16what the f my column the last time it would be all about the red wings buddy the last time
05:21i saw
05:22a team ownership act this irresponsible it was the ace and they but they were trying to leave
05:28they were doing everything they could to tick off the city of oakland they didn't want to be there
05:33anymore and they're packed up and they're moving and they're traveling circuits we all made fun of
05:38that i never thought i would see that for an original 16 the wings i don't know what they're doing
05:45because at least the a's wanted to move you saw the end game you saw why they were doing the
05:50ridiculous thing that they are doing nobody knows why the wings are doing what they're doing mike
05:55that's the frustrating part about all of this is okay are you selling your team like what are you doing
06:01because you fire your gm not after the season but months later then you go out and interview a hundred
06:10people for the job only to just lean down the hall harkov you want it yeah why not sure i'll
06:16take it
06:16but we're still gonna look for your replacement right and in the meantime you didn't solve the larkin
06:21thing and simon evanson is in europe skating at a park the fact that he still wanted to be a
06:28part of
06:28this team through all of this dysfunctionality you should have signed him at that point i'll tell you
06:35the guy who needs his head examined most is alex to bring it oh but he likes it here i
06:39don't care
06:40but his kids i don't care you can pay for whatever schools you want you send your your kids could
06:45go
06:45to school on mars or you can homeschool him at that point my whole point is i cannot believe i
06:49if i were
06:50playing on this team and i had any leverage like to bring it does oh that's the first call i
06:54make
06:54hey sean yeah i'm out what do you mean i'm leaving yeah you know if i'm the players it's like
07:00what do you
07:01mean they're not taking the ice they're they're not taking the ice until chris shows up and explains
07:04what's going on yes kind of kind of like a weird slap shot paul newman mystery owner in florida thing
07:10i feel like we have the mystery owner in florida it's an embarrassment yeah and if i'm gonna sit
07:15here and tell you listen chris did a good job letting scott harris spend money didn't go well
07:19but he did well guess what you got to take the other side of the coin he is running the
07:23red wings
07:24into the ground and if he thinks he's so smart and he thinks he's so cute and he thinks he's
07:28got all
07:28the answers then go to a podium and do real answers i don't want to hear about a wojo email
07:33piece
07:33check notes uh i like hockey i played i am i played in a college and beer league i've loved
07:40this game here you know the other problem with this the wings are in the atlantic the wings are
07:44in the toughest division in hockey and right here right now they're eight of eight they're the worst
07:49team in that division and that's before i take larkin and evanson off this team you had no off
07:55season i don't know what hope you have so i'm just gonna ask you do whatever you want to do
08:00i ain't telling you unlike other shows i don't need your validation you shouldn't need mine
08:07if you go to games are you still going is this fun for you is this a product you can
08:13support
08:14all the while your owner thinks so little of you he can't go to a podium look bob did the
08:19best he
08:20could what are you gonna do i'd love to get bob and gitmo and i'd love to waterboard wojo to
08:25get
08:25the truth i want to get to the bottom of this was that an email piece were you in a
08:30room with chris
08:30he swears up and down was this like gangland where it was a shadowy figure was it like arnold
08:35schwarzenegger in that movie he did with jamie lee curtis oh and he was the shadowy figure and she
08:41did the striptease like the mojo walking in lingerie what happened here true lies was it really chris
08:46was it chris or was it a shadowy figure using a voice box from the movie dick tracy
08:51big boy did it go to a podium and face the music and as and you know what if you're
08:58truly as smart
08:59as you think you are explain this explain what what went into the steve situation explain the
09:05methodology and the idea behind going to the season with a pretend gm handle the larkin thing
09:13and explain why evanson doesn't have a deal that's the that is the issue it is a fundamental problem
09:19this owner thinks so little of you i'm with you that like the person who i most feel sorry for
09:27and
09:27he has to have assurances that this year doesn't count is todd mcclellan you're asking me to go out
09:34here with not all my pieces i don't know who the boss is i don't really know what we're trying
09:41to do
09:42you can't fire me after this year this year is a gap year this year does not count what no
09:48matter
09:48how i go out there no matter what lineups i put out on the ice you can't come after me
09:53because
09:54that's what i feel sorry for because imagine going into work and you have no idea who's going to be
09:59on
09:59your team you have no idea who who to answer to you you just have no idea i mean hey
10:04look and i i know
10:05this is like trite and it's like yeah it's not your money dude if i'm todd mcclellan and i've made
10:10the better part of 50 million dollars in my career as a coach yeah man the beach sounds pretty good
10:16i ain't here for this todd mcclellan's a good hockey man i'm not telling you he's the best guy in
10:20the
10:20league but i don't really have any problems with todd mcclellan i don't think he deserves this no no
10:24but well very few people do there are a couple people that do nobody this is this is a preposterous
10:30situation i just want to hear from you you're the paying customer and again do whatever you want
10:35i can't see how you would go down there i mean maybe is cookies morbid curiosity for the first game
10:42on friday i gotta see what this actually looks like maybe i'm overthinking this maybe it's not
10:47as wow it's worse than what i thought hold on hold on on a fundamental level your captain demanded a
10:54trade he's no longer your captain and probably ain't playing friday and then the second best defenseman
11:00you got a guy you wouldn't put in the quinn hughes trade actually wants to be here think that statement
11:04over and you won't pay nine to ten million dollars to keep him here so much so that he's overseas
11:09practicing there's part of me that wonders is if this is still the harebrained 1956 you know like
11:15gordy howe asking for a new winter coat instead of a raise like are the wings still doing this thing
11:19of we can't pay more than our captain well you don't have a captain your pulsera is your captain he's
11:25wearing a c on opening night i mean why not two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven
11:31let's get it going at some point david's going to do the carl lewis anthem it's going to be exciting
11:35uh-oh uh-oh why'd you do that right now regular good luck rico oh well it's like that sports
11:48center
11:48clip he'll be out with a bulging stop disc question mark leave me alone
11:53so
11:53so
11:53you
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