Are You 'Playoffs Or Bust' With Yzerman This Season?
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00:00And then there's this text regarding the rebuilds.
00:04If this were anywhere else's offseason,
00:08going into year six, we'd be calling for their job.
00:11Steve is getting the glory days benefit of the doubt.
00:14Well, I also think the team has improved each year
00:17for the last several years.
00:19And again, I think he started way in the hole
00:22because of what Ken Hahn left him.
00:25I don't think all the moves he's made have been great moves.
00:27I think he's made some really good moves.
00:29I think he's made some questionable moves.
00:31And yet, through it all, this team has improved.
00:35If they made the playoffs this past season,
00:38I think we'd be singing a different tune right now.
00:40But because of a technicality, they didn't.
00:44And also because the team just failed down the end
00:46to really take command.
00:47And all you needed was one more point and you had it.
00:51Because those things were left
00:52with a sour taste in their mouth.
00:54Then free agency hits.
00:56You don't land the big free agents that you want.
00:59They haven't made a move with a trade yet
01:02that is to everyone's liking.
01:04And now people are kind of losing their mind a little bit.
01:07I mean, yesterday, the ticket texts,
01:08I thought, were uncalled for.
01:11Uncalled for.
01:13I understand people not liking the direction,
01:15not liking the moves,
01:16but people already saying, fire Steve Eizerman.
01:19I'll agree with that last ticket text you read
01:21more than not, though, Gator,
01:22because I'll say this.
01:24I'm not saying Steve Eizerman should be fired,
01:26but if he wasn't Steve Eizerman,
01:29people would be, more people would be calling
01:31for his firing.
01:32More people would be upset.
01:33Take the same track record from Tampa.
01:35Just name him something different
01:38and he didn't play for the Red Wings.
01:39You can't deny that people still,
01:41they still have this past relationship with the captain.
01:44I mean, you can't take that away from their memories.
01:46I know, I agree with that.
01:48I think that he, and you're right,
01:49with that last text we read,
01:51I think that we've been more patient
01:53because it's Steve Eizerman.
01:54But I think also if you,
01:56if you're forced to look at it objectively
01:59and you can see some gains,
02:01I mean, people are losing patience.
02:03I get it.
02:04I'm one of them.
02:04I'm starting to lose patience here.
02:06Like this, I thought playoff team last year
02:08and they weren't.
02:09So this upcoming season, it's gotta be a playoff.
02:12It's gotta be a playoff run.
02:13If not, what are we talking about?
02:15Six years in and still haven't made the playoffs?
02:17That's a real problem.
02:18And that's why my fingers is ready
02:21to press the first button on the seat warmer.
02:25It's not there yet.
02:26I'm going to let free agency in the trades play out
02:28leading up to the year.
02:29And then I'll evaluate everything else
02:31in prior to the season
02:33and see if I'm going to depress it
02:34for the first level of three.
02:37But right now it's just, you know,
02:38I'm noticing, oh, it's a little chilly in here.
02:40Do I need to, do I need to press this?
02:42Not just yet, but maybe soon.
02:44248-539-9797.
02:46This is 97-1, the ticket.