00:03are you going to be able to do the show with me dressed like this or do I need to
00:06take some of
00:06this off yes I can I can no please god no we've already gone through that good morning 971 yes
00:13I
00:14can do this show this way because I can sit here and just talk to Heather even if the noise
00:20isn't
00:20coming from Heather I can just sit and talk to Heather okay I should do this you're going to do
00:27the show like that I'm going to do the show 100% talking to Heather although Heather did say at
00:36the break it's not the most uncomfortable or weirdest thing that she's seen here oh stony
00:42at one point was topless for a while topless shirtless topless yeah well I use the word
00:51exposed you did expose yourself yes I don't know what he was doing a video which maybe even
00:56worse well we saw him on the beach remember yeah what's the camera was at what point of view
01:02from low yeah very low hey congrats to Tom and Alan Park he won Red Wing tickets in the first
01:09hour of
01:09the show Red Wings and Rangers tickets and info nhl.com slash Red Wings got another chance to
01:16win a pair of tickets for tonight in the seven o'clock hour you're going to want to listen
01:19for the Mickey Redmond bobblehead who will say bingo bango when you hear it call in get yourself
01:27to the game tonight did you use again from twitch did you use that shirt on your last swinger screws
01:35that where you picked it up now the last time I wore this was our last double digit disco
01:40and you learn nothing I'm feeling like this year with the cost of lock to know this no hold on
01:47it's
01:48not this year it's this season okay let's not over exaggerate I just think this is going to be my
01:56year I think to your season when we get to this time next year if the cost of lock has
02:02not missed
02:03then you can say year it has not been a year USA soccer would like to disagree yeah okay fine
02:11this
02:12could be my season to an own the cost of lock I'm throwing it out there double digit disco Sunday
02:16night Lions and Panthers are you also cost of locking this one no it's just the double digit disco I
02:20know you there's a lot to keep track of over there yeah doing the show with my eyes closed
02:28we got a lot that we want to discuss of course Lions and Panthers are you feeling as confident
02:33as I am we'll get some of those calls and texts tonight is the Red Wing season opener what is
02:39it
02:39going to be like we want to hear from fans planning on going what is this vibe check going to
02:45be like
02:46with all that is swirling around our hockey team and we'll get to Durin and the cookie jar as the
02:51hour rolls on I have no idea what the LCA is going to be like tonight and I mean is
02:57it typically you
02:59have your best crowds early on you know it's celebrating the start of the season but what
03:04are fans celebrating I don't even know like is it just hey we're going to celebrate the NHL we're
03:10going to celebrate that hockey is back and everything seems like it's ending with a question mark like
03:17we had a guy call this week and say he doesn't have tickets anymore but he made sure to buy
03:20them for
03:20this game to show how disgruntled he is but how does that show up like you're just gonna boo every
03:26chance you get coordinated chance like they're not going to show Sean Horkoff or Chris Illich on
03:31the video board so I just don't know how you're going to make your frustrations known like Larkin
03:36you can't boo him if he doesn't play right so I just wonder what it's going to be like at
03:40Little
03:41Caesars Arena if anybody has any any idea of what they're planning to do I mean if they're losing the
03:47team will get booed but I don't think fans are just going to blanket boo the team I wouldn't think
03:52so but with the way that this offseason is gone how else do fans have a chance to express their
04:00emotions it's when this team takes the ice and I would I would hope that the players on the ice
04:08and I'm
04:09sure they probably do if they get booed at the beginning they'll know it's they'll know it's not for
04:14them it's it's a bigger issue yeah and what's the crowd going to be I mean it's normally sold out
04:21right I mean it's the start of the season yeah you celebrate everything there's there's hope
04:24springs eternal but at the same time your number one center is hurt or at least isn't going to play
04:30the first two games I don't know if people are buying it or not but he's not playing the first
04:34two games their top pair on defense is without the left side Simon Edmondson's in Sweden and the team
04:41says a rebuilds off the table but they're missing two of their five best players
04:48how should the team respond when you've mismanaged the offseason this poorly you know you're late to
04:53the party to fire your GM you still haven't hired one it's an interim players who want to be here
04:58can't get deals done players who want to leave can't be traded national talking heads are mocking
05:02this organization like fans feel it like fans are this a proud fan base but you have punched them
05:10in the gut repeatedly this offseason so I think you're going to hear it tonight at Little Caesars
05:16Arena how and why and what I have no idea I'm also curious as to what do Wings fans want
05:21out of this
05:22season and do you want to watch it burn because you're you're you want something whatever it might
05:31be to change but then you have the maybe you have the belief that even if it burns this year
05:38who's who's calling the shots and who is actually going to be in place to be able to to have
05:44a rebuild
05:45somebody say burn
05:48look uh yeah I think it's it's probably going to go that way whether we want it to or not
05:53but the pound of flesh I think fans want their pound of flesh
05:59like nobody thinks it's a playoff team right so at that point you want Larkin traded
06:06when it's convenient you're not going to sell him for pennies on the dollar but you're going to want
06:09to trade Dylan Larkin and reboot this thing now you can reboot it around Raymond and Sider and
06:15Edvinson if you ever sign him but it's it's not going to get better until it gets worse right
06:23yes again everything ends with a question mark I mean are you are people going tonight are they
06:30going to cheer for the Red Wings or are they going to boo like it's weird like let's say they
06:36score
06:36the first goal against the Rangers people are going to get on their feet and cheer it's their hockey team
06:39they scored a goal yeah but if they give up the first goal is it going to weigh even heavier
06:43if
06:44they're down to nothing after the first period and before the puck even drops what is that place
06:48going to feel like with all the emotions bubbling up we got a texter who says um I'm going to
06:55the
06:55game I plan on booing and chanting sell the team another says bring back the million era paper bags
07:00over our heads if it's a nationally televised game by the way oh I think you just triggered some people
07:07that want to do just that to go get tickets and go I think you're going to see some of
07:12that stuff
07:13scattered uh I think tonight is solely based on how the team plays you know if you go down to
07:18nothing to end the first I think it's going to be ugly going into the first intermission I think
07:23the boos will be deafening and then national tv may start showing the couple guys out there that
07:30have the bag over their head uh you may see a chant take on a life of its own but
07:35I do think tonight's
07:36performance based I mean look to be fair the coach and the players that are taking the ice I don't
07:42if they really technically deserve to be booed before they play a game I agree with that so
07:48but how else do you let your fresh that's why I'm saying that's what's awkward about it
07:51because they're not there's not going to be like a Sheila halftime Calvin Johnson situation where
07:56you're given the chance to throw verbal tomatoes at people you don't like right and that was weird
08:01because if you wanted to celebrate Calvin you wanted to send a message and and I'm curious as to
08:06what the what the first experience is going to be like because you want to celebrate the guys that
08:12are there you want to celebrate for you know that it's the start of an HL season but it's also
08:18an
08:18opportunity to send a message you know a couple weeks ago I kind of speculated I thought look if
08:23if Larkin kind of came back and you know he took the the beating at a press conference and
08:27he he hits the ice and he's going to give his all and you got Evanston out there and he's
08:32happy
08:33that this team could kind of galvanize itself I I think that's out the window I I think they're
08:39going to be I think they're probably a pretty fragile locker room right now so I was perusing
08:43Max Bultman does a great job uh covering the Red Wings at the Athletic he had like his 10 bold
08:48predictions he has this team picking in the top five he thinks they won't hire a full-time GM until
08:53April when the season ends he did predict Larkin would be traded by December 1st
09:00among his other predictions so does does Larkin ever actually play for the Wings this year that's
09:06a great question too or these are all home games like Tuesday's the next game he could play it's
09:11at home Ottawa in town Willie I doubt it right I mean till proven otherwise it's it it is it's
09:20just
09:20it's so weird and dysfunctional and maybe that's the only way to put it right now is it's it's a
09:26it's completely dysfunctional I think that's a good word let's go to Jason Jason in uh Harrison
09:31Township oh man just hung up all right we'll get back to the text uh text says I'm so apathetic
09:38to
09:38the Wings I won't even watch this season my consumption will come from listening to this
09:42station and uh well-known Wings podcast want to support you guys and those guys but not the team
09:48I can't watch this car crash signed Steve uh people saying you're gonna hear sell the team
09:55uh chance tonight uh everyone who goes should wear clown outfits or a disco outfit
10:02kind of one and the same Jim when did what was the deadline for renewing uh March I think
10:09so it was even before they collapsed yes no that's why we're in for this year it's a this thing
10:14man I'm
10:15telling you what with the seven out of eight at home if they perform poorly it is going to be
10:20so
10:21ugly at these games it's just going to get worse and worse it'll take on a life of its own
10:25because
10:26these fans are going to go to these games for these tickets they paid for it's so early in the
10:30year
10:31they're not going to want to unload them probably yet I also don't know that you're going to get
10:34anywhere near what you paid for them so right maybe you just go because I mean it's better than you
10:40go to voice yourself yeah and then that's that's cathartic right like it's not what you want to do
10:45it's what you feel you have to do you want to go support the team and watch them make the
10:49playoffs
10:49and have this building host hockey town again if they put on the center ice this hasn't been hockey
10:55town let's get uh Ron in Ann Arbor Ron good morning hi guys how are you good morning good morning
11:03um have you guys discussed I I hear you guys every now and then but have you guys discussed their
11:09schedule in October because their schedule in October is as easy as you can get they're only
11:14playing two teams that made the playoffs and so they could either get off to a really good start
11:20which is fake or if they tank in October they're in a lot of trouble because it is an easy
11:27schedule
11:28so Rangers who are not good Winnipeg Ottawa who's going to take a step back many people think Seattle
11:34another team that's closer to the bottom than the top those are their first four games
11:38so you're right right I think they play Edmonton and they play Edmonton's later this month in Edmonton
11:46they do a west coast here's the thing they take a west coast trip at the end of the mid
11:49to end of
11:50this month right yeah Montreal right but later in the month Seattle Vancouver Calgary Edmonton like
11:56if they just vanish out west if they drop some of those games they're losing to Vancouver and Seattle
12:03and Calgary oh boy oh boy so this is going to be interesting to see how they how they get
12:10out of
12:10the gate and that was my other thought is if they get out of the gate and they're like eight
12:14and two
12:15does Larkin still sit there and go well yeah I still want out if they're having a really hot start
12:20because they could and it could be a fake hot start or they could just go right in the toilet
12:24right
12:24away I think we'd get people saying stay away right I mean I know fans are like don't mess with
12:29a good
12:29thing they'd say don't don't bring him back into this roster blah blah blah and I don't even know
12:34how much of it is his choice anymore you know I mean if if ownership is like hey you you
12:41you made
12:41your statement we're going to move you but we're going to do it when it works best for us so
12:46as part of
12:46that thought process if you don't skate you can't suffer a serious injury we'll keep shopping you and
12:52scratch each other's back I'm not going to throw you out to the wolves and we're going to get a
12:57trade
12:57done before December 1st yeah as soon as we can get a good return 248-539-9797 Jalen Duren signed
13:05last
13:05night we'll get thoughts next 97.1
