So on my way home from work, metro Detroit radio 97.1 had a caller session that featured an interesting take on management situation due to the recent news of a DeBrincat extension… (give me a little grace i’ve been thinking about this now for a long time)

Caller starts off by saying he has a long time work history with “Mergers and Acquisitions”, and his gut is telling him that this signing has “new ownership” written all over it…

So he goes on to talk about how team ownership is valued in the billions unlike when many of these family related owners came into ownership. Mike Sr. bought the Wings for “millions” where as now the whole enterprise is worth “billions” (now there wasnt talk about Ilitch Entertainment being sold, just the Red Wings team)

Now his theory is Yzerman got wind of this ownership shift and felt like “no wonder things have been tough, not sure i want to go around with a new owner”. Ilitch took 30 days to get a GM search going because of it being “his” next step to “own”.

Now DeBrincat (or DeBrincat’s team) got wind of who the new “buyer” and genuinely believes money will be spent, so he will “buy in” to staying with the team.

Obviously the issue here is Larkin…which the best i can come up with is, this guy is completely in the dark about all of it throughout the end of last season and honestly wants out. New ownership though will look to mend the bridge if possible to try and start investing in players, maybe winning him back.

Look….to me its crazy…but i can see something like this causing so much damn chaos in an organization, that all the employees want answers and no “higher up” wants to come clean, because they “know” the truth of what is down the road.

Curious to anyone else’s thoughts

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