Darren Dreger

And we can appreciate that Billy Aaron would have a ton of interest in Dylan Larkin.

You know, it's great captain and all of those things.

It does get a lot more complicated when it is now as public as it is.

Because Steve Eisenman might be next to Lou Amarillo when he was the general manager.

The most private GM there is in the National Hockey League.

Nice man, see him in the hallways, the fancy hotels we stay at when there are general managers meetings, but he does not pull the curtain back.

He does not.

So this whole process is going to anger him and it's going to get complicated.

Maybe some would have known.

I can tell you by the GM reaction to me, based on the news breaking this afternoon, they didn't know.

And these would be managers who are in the market for that type of player.

Like a centerman, right?

Now, Dylan Larkin's going to have a big say in what that market looks like.

We've already established that.

Yeah, honestly, I'm not going to waste any time digging in on how the leak happened.

But as we've just talked about here, do we honestly think that that information is coming out of the Detroit Red Wings organization?

I don't.

Like, I don't think so.

I don't know anybody inside that organization starting at the top with Steve Eisenman that wants that out there because he wants to either apply public pressure to Larkin or to see what the market actually is.

And based on the reaction that I got from the Larkin camp,