Dylan Larkin

now change the direction that Detroit wants to go in right now.

Like, we all thought, and the belief was prior to this, that Detroit was now going to take next steps in a very, very prolonged rebuild.

That now we're going to start making some moves and making more impactful additions to this roster because we not only want to make the playoffs, we kind of have to at this stage.

Now, moving Larkin, it sounds like it's more of a futures-based package, at least right now anyway.

Is it a player-for-player, is this a star-for-star type of swap?

It doesn't sound like it.

So now from Eisenman and Detroit's perspective, if it is Minnesota, because that seems to be the most likeliest, well, are we taking the young Russian kid and the first-round pick and a couple other prospects, and are we then packaging them up to fill –

what we need elsewhere, or are we going to prolong this rebuild even more now because we're going to blame Dylan Larkin for doing it?

I mean, maybe they can go in that direction in terms of how optically they're going to sell this to the fan base, but this was supposed to be taking next steps summer, and it certainly seems like a regression.

It's both.

Because I think you can use the narrative and sell the narrative of, he wanted out, this was the best deal available for us, and its future is driven, and now we've got to prolong this a little bit.

It's also, you know, Stevie's fault, because he was supposed to make these additions.

I mean, you go back to the last trade deadline.

I mean, Larkin kind of voiced his

his discontent with how the deadline like why are we at it why are we not trying to get better and similar messaging this year while okay they brought in falcon they made some small moves there was no big home run type of uh... of of deal that was made depending we talked to there was a strong belief that they tried i don't know i mean to quote the simpsons trying as the first step towards failure uh... so

The lesson here is never try.

Just do.

So go out there and get.

So that's kind of the tricky part now.

So I think now you can sell the narrative as he wanted out.