Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@RedWingDiehards

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@anthonypollifro Plenty of blame to go around. Yzerman made his share of bad trades and FA signings, pro scouting has been a disaster. Letting draft picks run out of waivers without getting a sniff and then dumping them off for picks (re: Cossa) makes his asset management questionable at best.

[JeffMossDSR @JeffMossDSR]

If there isn’t a “Fuck Chris Ilitch” chant at LCA on Friday night I don’t even know what we are doing.

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@BradKrysko

[Peter Andrianopoulos @peterandri]

Boycott Illitch sports & entertainment.
Enough lies and broken promises.
#LGRW

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@DetroitRedWings @Ticketmaster SELL THE TEAM

[JeffMossDSR @JeffMossDSR]

Andrew Copp, JT Compher and Michael Rasmussen are all still on this team. What a fucking abortion of an organization.

[👽 @AlienW3b]

Nicolas Cage says he had $8 million ready to build a movie studio in Las Vegas, until every dollar was redirected into Elon Musk’s Tesla cooperation.

Jimmy Kimmel: I love that you live there, do you live there for tax reasons?

Nicholas Cage: Originally yeah!

But then I began to learn to love it.

You know, also I've had great experiences making movies there. I mean, Leaving Las Vegas was great, Honeymoon in Vegas was great. Thank you. And there's good mojo there for me.

So I like making movies. I tried to get a movie studio built there, and then Elon Musk came in, and all the money I got for the movie studio, I got $8 million, they put it into the Tesla Corporation, which then ironically drained all the water out of the city.

Note: This is an old interview

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@RedWingDiehards Should read Prashanth Iyer's substack going back to his 4/09/26 posts if you haven't already. Planted the idea of resetting the window if Yzerman couldn't/wouldn't make the upgrades at wing/center on the top lines to be a legit playoff team this offseason.

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@WingedWheelPod Ding dong the Yzerplan is dead. Only a year or three too late

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@DetroitRedWings Adios bozo

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@FlyingOctoPod Al sabotka

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@JCSportsDetroit Fire Yzerman.

[Joe Chapp @JCSportsDetroit]

Understand what the two positions actually are. Larkin wants out — reportedly because he wants to win, which is the one motive nobody can really argue with. Yzerman wants a return that helps Detroit compete immediately, because a decade into this tenure with no playoff appearance, he is squarely in save-your-job mode. Both positions are individually rational. Together, they're a deadlock. Larkin's three-team list guts Yzerman's leverage; Yzerman's win-now demand guts the list's viability. Neither man is wrong by his own logic, and the collision of those two logics produces exactly nothing — no trade, no reconciliation, no resolution, all summer.

And if the reports are accurate that the captain and the general manager went an extended stretch without speakiung, then this deadlock wasn't fate. It was manufactured. A conversation — an actual, adult conversation between the two most important people in the organization — either prevents this or resolves it early enough to act on. Instead, agents around the league reportedly knew about the freeze-out, which quietly answered a question fans have been asking for years: why don't the good free agents come here? Why does a franchise with Little Caesars Arena, a state-of-the-art practice facility, and one of the great brands in hockey keep finishing second for players? Because the people paid to represent those players could see what we couldn't.

Meanwhile the neighborhood got better. Toronto improved. Florida — already the class of the conference — added Brady Tkachuk to a lineup getting Aleksander Barkov back. The Atlantic Division is an arms race, and Detroit's contribution to it this summer has been a staring contest with its own captain. The Red Wings didn't get better for now. They didn't sell for the future. They picked the one option with no upside in either direction: nothing.

The cruelest part is that fans can't do anything about it except what they've always done: buy the tickets, watch the games, refresh the feeds, and wait for two men who reportedly couldn't be bothered to speak to each other to figure out what the rest of us pay for the privilege of watching them not decide.

Larkin will land somewhere fine. Yzerman will survive this. The fans get the summer of limbo, the season of consequences, and the bill for both. That's the saga, stripped to its studs. Everybody in it has an exit except us.

Link to video; https://t.co/CCd181iMUi

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@johnnywharton That or the 3 team story that has only been put out by HSJ, who has never broke news not directly fed to her from the front office, could be BS meant to push a preferred narrative. Based on reports of their relationship 71 is done with Detroit as long as GMSY is still here.

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@RoidMcCoy @HeleneStJames Yeah I was referring to the previous 7 years that he's used to build what will be a lottery team next season. Hold strong on the trade demands though, maybe we'll be surprised and it will be the one thing he's good at.

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@J_the_ManSelden @BrianFisherLORW Exactly. HSJ is a team mouthpiece, has been since the KH days. Only gets scoops when the GM feeds them to her

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@JW_eats_plastic @champletics No shit. Congrats on your dominance Steve, nobody pushes you around! Now go make your lottery pick in year 8 and hope seider and Raymond don't tell you they want out next

[Dr. Professor Matt, PHD Esq. LLC @WingedSpartanZ]

@johnnywharton 2.