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The Valenti Show

Does Anyone Want To Play For Yzerman?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

3.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Mike discusses his takeaways from Elliotte Friedman's article describing the incompetence of the Yzerman regime.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, if you're looking for Tiger Baseball, we opened with it.

0:03.4

Super positive, great weekend, and I think it was more meaningful than just three games,

0:08.7

including a bold declaration.

0:11.5

All positive, but just something bold.

0:14.5

We're talking Eisenman, Elliot Friedman.

0:16.9

I thought it was pretty damning stuff.

0:18.4

He had the, you know, 30 thoughts, 30 teams.

0:22.0

Let me summarize.

0:23.6

Players don't want to play here.

0:25.5

We've read the reports.

0:26.9

Agents find Eiserman, arguably the most difficult guy in the league to work with.

0:32.8

This is going to be a hard product to sell the fans.

0:35.4

Friedman's words, not mine. They haven't made the playoffs

0:39.9

in a long time, too long. What have we bitched about? But then we get scolded. This is the problem.

0:45.4

This is also the issue, look, let me just say this to. And I know I sound a little bit like Clint Eastwood

0:51.2

and Grand Torino, like snarling. This is the problem when we've lost free thought.

0:57.6

And what I mean by that is we live in an era now where if you're a Red Wings fan, a diehard, a devotee,

1:03.9

you can create a world where everything's positive all the time.

1:08.5

And I'm not singling any specific person out.

1:11.9

I think this is every team and every town and every sport.

1:14.8

You get these fan pods and fan blogs and it's, and then the worst part is the teams are

1:20.2

like credentialing these people.

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