LALONDE FIRED, MCLELLAN HIRED, AND SANDIN PELLIKKA'S HAT TRICK (EMERGENCY EPISODE) - Dec. 26th, 2024
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5 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
DEREK LALONDE HAS BEEN FIRED BY THE DETROIT RED WINGS.
So much for the holiday break - tune into this EMERGENCY EPISODE of the Winged Wheel Podcast as we discuss Derek Lalonde and Bob Boughner being relieved of their duties by Steve Yzerman in Hockeytown, and Todd McLellan and Trent Yawney being hired to replace them.
We open by discussing Newsy's firing, how the team performed under him, how Dylan Larkin's comments & poor performances by the team (outside of the like of Lucas Raymond, Moritz Seider, Simon Edvinsson, & Alex DeBrincat) affected his coaching tenure, if he deserved to be fired, & how much of the season was his fault (2:50).
Next, a look at Todd McLellan as a coach, his history with McDavid's Oilers and Kopitar's Kings, what type of system he plays, how much he can get out of the likes of Patrick Kane, J.T. Compher, Andrew Copp, Vladimir Tarasenko, Marco Kasper, Jonatan Berggren, & others, whether Yzerman wanted Jim Montgomery, Gerrard Gallant, or Joel Quenneville, & what can realistically be expected of this season (still tanking for Hagens, Misa, Martone, Schaefer, etc.?) (11:55).
After that, what Steve Yzerman has to do next to fix the roster (and when): a trade with the Buffalo Sabres for Dylan Cozens or Bowen Byram? Zegras from the Ducks? (32:40)
Finally, Axel Sandin Pellikka kicks off the World Junior Championship by storm with a hat trick, scoring 3 goals and an assist for Team Sweden as the Detroit Red Wings prospect lights it up (as Augustine struggles a bit against Germany) (48:05).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wingwheel podcast, the number one source for news, analysis, and discussion on the Detroit Red Wings, the NHL, and all things hockey. |
| 0:19.1 | Here are your hosts, Ryan Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:28.3 | Brad, you're still sitting next to that Winged Wheel podcast Christmas tree, and the promise |
| 0:36.1 | always is that after Christmas happens, the tree |
| 0:38.7 | comes down and you have a little bit more space to work with. But we're not supposed to be here |
| 0:42.5 | today. Brad and I know that. Yeah, you two are firmly aware. And I have to say for all the crap |
| 0:50.1 | I give you, I commend you both for getting here on short notice. Pretty much is a scene from |
| 0:55.6 | gone in 60 seconds to the three of us getting into the studio to record today. You were supposed to |
| 1:00.4 | get a bonus episode for a very cool interview that we've been waiting to release for you. That's |
| 1:04.6 | going to be down the line. We're not really worrying about that right now because this is a |
| 1:08.1 | emergency episode of the winged wheel podcast because |
| 1:12.2 | Derek Lillone has been fired. |
| 1:14.6 | Todd McClellan is back in Detroit as a head coach now. |
| 1:19.2 | And our holiday break, the hockey gods were probably laughing as we were talking about |
| 1:23.2 | a holiday break, is gone. |
| 1:25.7 | Like all good things. |
| 1:27.6 | This was the one week. |
| 1:28.7 | We were supposed to not have to show up midweek. |
| 1:31.6 | Our one schedule week per year. |
| 1:34.0 | I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. |
| 1:36.5 | I really was because we had a really good streak of content not really screwing us. |
| 1:42.2 | Like between the de Brinket trade one and that was the last bad one to now, |
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