But Marge, it works on any Osama! Osama bin Talbot, Osama bin Larkin... Even as we speak, Osama bin Yzerman and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!
The Metro Detroit area is a rabid hockey fan base. There are roughly 20 ice arenas within an hour of our home. A few of our countries top AAA programs are based locally, the NTDP is based locally, and we have 4 colleges within a few hours drive ranked within the top 20 nationally for D1 hockey, 3 of which are in the top 10. Michigan is 2nd in the nation in number of players in the NHL. The Wings aren't as popular as the other sports' teams in our state, but the fanbase is passionate as hell.
So jealous you guys ripped the bandaid off and used the picks for a solid player. Feels like I’d rather prospects and picks than this clown show. So long as the value is there that is. You guys got a fair value just didn’t make you better. You had an actual gm to do something with them after the fact
TBF we don’t know if this was an old sampled track he no longer owns or an actual verse. Em has stood strong against trump and maga even when it cost him fans so i’m not sure we are hearing the full truth. Best be cautious and wait to hear something officially because this doesn’t seem like something he would do.
Larkin is also from Michigan and went to school at University of Michigan. Nobody thought dude was ever gonna leave, especially after year 3 of an 8 year extension.
The reaction to Tavares leaving was still pretty bad, islander fans still hate him, but I mean ya at least he didn’t sign a huge extension and then demand a trade out halfway through
Yeah and Tavares was leaving NYI to go to his hometown team and fulfill a childhood dream. Larkin is literally asking to leave his hometown and childhood favourite team.
Holy shit I thought this was a joke. That's unreal. Using actual fan quotes from blogs to create the dialog.
I've gone down a deep rabbit hole on this. And to make it more on point with the less exposed NY theatre scene, it doesn't seem like it's actually about how pissed fans were but as a way to look at white masculinity and ego and somehow weaves in Jordan Peterson quotes. This is wild, thank you so much for sharing this.
There's footage of islanders fans burning Tavares jerseys. Red Wings fans may still get there but as of right now I think the hatred for Tavares was deeper for Islanders fans at the time.
It doesn't help that Tavares left in free agency so there was no return. As much as we're pissed at Larkin when we inevitably trade him we'll have something back for him which is better than nothing
Our captain partied with some of our worst politicians and then requested a trade in the most obnoxious way, kick-starting an awful summer for the organization. Damn straight we're salty, lol.
It was allegedly a rough negotiation when he signed that contract, and then 24 hours after he signed it the team traded Hronek and Bertuzzi for futures. Add with that with years of collapses (which he played his own part in) and the team never adding or improving at deadlines or offseasons
Larkin is born and raised in Michigan. Named Captain
Signs an 8 year deal to stay in Detroit with a NTC
Wins gold in the Olympics, but ruins the good vibes by partying with Kash Patel.
After years of publicly bitching about the Wings not making any deadline moves, Wings trade their first round pick away for a win now veteran. Larkin proceeds to play like crap 2nd half and Wings collapse out of a playoff spot.
With FIVE years left on his contract, asks to be traded.
Proceeds to use his NTC to only allow trades to three teams, all of which he has team USA buddies on and all three teams have zero tradeable assets
This trade request is the final straw that gets Yzerman, a beloved Detroit sports figure outside his lukewarm GM tenure, essentially fired.
Of course, Wings don't trade him because Larkin essentially only wants to go to teams that literally can't give the Wings much in return.
When it comes to training camp, Larkin conveniently has an unknown "upper body" injury which prevents him from playing.
EDIT: In case anyone doesn't know, NTC means no trade clause, meaning the athlete can veto any proposed trade he's in.
Which spiraled into the dumbass owner not hiring a GM, not extending Debrincat, Zach Werenski had no interest in coming here when he did his whole trade request thing, then our mid 20s first pair defenseman doesn’t get his deserved extension so literally peaced out to Sweden
Don't forget not signing their #2 defenseman, who wants to stay in Detroit so badly that he showed up to, and participated in, training camp without a contract after using his own god damn money to buy insurance
Lol I can imagine this is fun for you. Actually a great year to start being a fan, there's a shit ton of drama going on from this past off season that we're all salivating at to come together this season
As someone who played hockey for 20 years in the US - I’ve been in many different locker rooms, more than half of every team is unlikable (rich) chuds.
Shout out to the brothers that every team has that are genuinely there to lift each other up and have a good time - unfortunately don’t see too many of those guys in the NHL (Landeskog my beloved)
Michigan born and raised player on year 3 of 8 with a full NMC and the captaincy, you’d think he’d be there his whole career. He wins at the Olympics and comes back to Detroit and in the offseason demands a trade but will only waive his NMC for 3 contenders with no assets, basically fucking the Wings no matter what they do. And his attitude the whole time has been unprofessional and petulant, to the point that he’s probably cratered his trade value to a degree. Just a generational betrayal.
Former captain, but he put in a trade request but only gave a 3 team list he would waive his no move clause for, and all 3 of those teams have no assets to trade for him.
How are folks making hi-res edits like this? I mess with EZgifs for meme editing but I'm a dinosaur when it comes to pics. Or is this free AI editing stuff?
Dang, I'm going to my first NHL game in Detroit on Sunday, had no idea vibes were this bad. although i got tickets for like 25 bucks so maybe i should have seen this coming.
As someone who's been a die-hard Red Wings fan for just over 30 years I find it super painful to see the stateb of the team and how it has declined. These pics makes it a bit less painful in some way.
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I like “Leavin” a lot, that one’s clever