Kicking Tires: A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
Jun 8, 2026 · 52 min · 19 segments
With Larkin asking out, it's' time for some pretty awkward conversations. We go over what Dylan Larkin asking out means to the team before asking each other about some of the proposed deals that are…
Well, okay.
I was, when I first, when the news first broke, I was out.
I didn't know.
I didn't check.
I was on my phone for like an hour.
I get, I check my phone after like maybe an hour and two hours into the news.
He's like, oh, what happened? Call him back.
I'm like, what the hell are we, like, what are we, like, what are we talking about? Like, then i was like the first thing i told him was like yeah it's the second rebuild is starting now i was like yeah it's
it's wraps
like like i don't really know how you can go from from this like you were at such a high point in the season to where you're like the trajectory of this team fell fell fell fell and fell i didn't think it could get any lower from them missing the playoffs to them actually losing their captain like they're i don't think we're taking into account they're losing their captain franchise player captain has been there since i think what 2018 right like they drafted him and and he's then he requested a trade so i don't know i'm kind of it's like hurtful in a way like it just sucks implications wise, where would he even go? He's going to a contender.
And I think the main, we were talking about this, like the main places he would go is one of the Florida teams or Carolina or Minnesota, one of those teams.
And I'm like, But we're going to trade him to the East, which is the most stacked it's ever been, and hope that this team can still get slightly better with what we're going to trade for him and where we trade him to, to the hope that they don't just kill us in the standings anymore.
It just sucks.
At this point, I don't even know what to say other than it just sucks.
Team implication-wise for me, I don't know how that's going to fare with the coaching staff and the locker room and all of that.
But it's, it's just, it's, I don't know.
Like, I don't even know what you say.
Like, I'm trying to put this into like basketball terms and like, oh, what would this even be like? I like, it would just hurt realistically if I was a fan of it.
Like, that's really all it is.
I don't know.
Well, okay.
I was, when I first, when the news first broke, I was out.
I didn't know.
I didn't check.
I was on my phone for like an hour.
I get, I check my phone after like maybe an hour and two hours into the news.
He's like, oh, what happened? Call him back.
I'm like, what the hell are we, like, what are we, like, what are we talking about? Like, then i was like the first thing i told him was like yeah it's the second rebuild is starting now i was like yeah it's
it's wraps
like like i don't really know how you can go from from this like you were at such a high point in the season to where you're like the trajectory of this team fell fell fell fell and fell i didn't think it could get any lower from them missing the playoffs to them actually losing their captain like they're i don't think we're taking into account they're losing their captain franchise player captain has been there since i think what 2018 right like they drafted him and and he's then he requested a trade so i don't know i'm kind of it's like hurtful in a way like it just sucks implications wise, where would he even go? He's going to a contender.
And I think the main, we were talking about this, like the main places he would go is one of the Florida teams or Carolina or Minnesota, one of those teams.
And I'm like, But we're going to trade him to the East, which is the most stacked it's ever been, and hope that this team can still get slightly better with what we're going to trade for him and where we trade him to, to the hope that they don't just kill us in the standings anymore.
It just sucks.
At this point, I don't even know what to say other than it just sucks.
Team implication-wise for me, I don't know how that's going to fare with the coaching staff and the locker room and all of that.
But it's, it's just, it's, I don't know.
Like, I don't even know what you say.
Like, I'm trying to put this into like basketball terms and like, oh, what would this even be like? I like, it would just hurt realistically if I was a fan of it.
Like, that's really all it is.
I don't know.
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