That's Todd McClellan.

I mean, it's hard to figure out what goes through people's minds subconsciously.

But if that even went into anybody's mind, oh, we got Larkin back.

Let's lay off, put on the brakes.

That's weak with a capital W.

Come on.

He played very well, actually, if you think about it, you know.

Wouldn't that point to what you said last segment about maybe a McClellan issue?

If that's the team's mentality when your captain returns, I feel like that could be partially a coaching issue.

Which will go into the offseason about what they have to do. Obviously, I don't think they would get rid of the coach. But if they did, how many of the players would they have to get rid of as well? But, you know, people are pissed and they should be pissed. And look, you say, well, it's one game. They still have, what, 11 left, I believe? Yeah, they can, look, why? You see what Columbus has done. Okay, you see what Buffalo's done. Now, granted, Columbus went on the heater, and they're still on a pretty much of a heater, even though they lost a couple games after they made a coaching change. Buffalo's heater has been like four months already

since they fired their general manager,

which makes no sense to me,

but it's worked for them.

So, you know, kudos to them.

And Sonny, I think for the 11 games, you know, for Wings fans,

I hate that you almost just want to either the team to tap out because you don't want to go on

this ride and at the end you're still out of the playoffs again.

And you don't have a number one draft choice because you gave it for Falk and God forbid

the Blues win the lottery.

You know what's interesting though, Rico is that it felt like in the first two periods,

really, that they had already tapped out.

Yeah.

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