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Detroit’s season opener is framed as the clean slate the Red Wings desperately need after a long stretch of public frustration. A home win over the Rangers would quiet the offseason noise and give the fan base a reason to believe the turnaround has finally started.
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It's your daily rundown on Friday, and we got to start off talking about these Red Wings because
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they have been a hot topic the last month or so in this offseason, and now it is finally time for
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them to put up or shut up. Not that they've been doing a whole lot of chatter because nobody's got
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expectations for them this year. Maybe outside of myself. Call me the black eyed peas. I got a
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feeling, and that feeling tells me they're actually making the playoffs. We deserve it too because for
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the last decade, the Red Wings fan base has been marinating in futility. It's been a miserable
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decade of no postseason appearances. I want to see them put it to bed this season, even though
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nobody's calling for it. But it all starts tonight. Red Wings and Rangers debut to the season for
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Detroit happening on home ice at LCA. I will be down there. I'm expecting booze to rain down on
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Dylan Larkin. I'm expecting a fun atmosphere and I want to say I expect it, but I'd really
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really like to see a win. This is the Red Wings champ. All of the terribleness that has surrounded
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this offseason for this franchise can be put to bed if you win games. There's been so much going
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on The questions as to who would become general manager for this team The controversy with the Dylan Larkin trading fiasco all of the confusion with the Simon Edkinson stuff all of that can be put
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to bed with winning. That's what sports is all about. And sorry if you were told it's all about
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having fun as a kid. At the pro level, it's about results. It's about getting the W's. It's about
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picking up wins. And this Red Wing franchise has looked awful this offseason. It's had a really
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bad look. It's had a really bad stigma. It's been embarrassing to see this way that the franchise
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has been operating in the offseason. But you go out on the ice tonight, you get a win. You continue
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winning in October, in November, December. You keep winning in 2027 and you make the playoffs
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That's all you got to do to unsour this fan base. Because right now the Red Wings have a very bad
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outward appearance. The rest of the league looks at this team as a joke. Sorry, don't mean to be
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mean. That's just the fact of the matter. The Red Wings look like a joke of an organization
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But if they can go out and win, if they can make it to the playoffs, winning solves everything
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And I'm hoping it starts tonight. I'm hoping it's a good opener at home. And I'm hoping this season
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the Red Wings finally get back to the playoffs. It all starts tonight at LCA
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