Today on lockdown Red Wings Lucas Raymond and Patrick Kane save the season for now your locked on Red Wings your daily podcast on the Detroit Red Wings part of the locked on podcast Network your team every Day welcome back to the locked on Red Wings podcast we are your hosts Brian fiser and Scotty Bentley I’m a podcast producer for the daily J A WWJ News Radio podcast while Scotty’s a host over at the lockdown Tigers podcast and a freelance cheer list for the Detroit
News and uh we’re back in the wind column Scotty uh I’m thinking we’re back oh my God this team’s a roller coaster but we’re back in the win column and Lucas Raymond and Patrick Kane singlehandedly trying to drag this team to the playoffs both riding five game
Point streaks or what ever it is at this point man was that a a roller coaster of a hockey game and you know what between this and my own men’s league team shout out fellas winning the semi-final 71 let’s go golf class everybody golf CL earn this victory beer so golf clubs for
The boys yep I mean let’s just dive right into it set two wins in three games we’re so back no I’m just kidding I’m not that delusional this was a rough game at the to getg go I I mean they came out and I was like Jesus they barely beat the
Columbus Blue Jackets we’re like we’re so like it’s not they were losing with 15 seconds left they were losing they were gonna lose this game like it was it was over they were gonna lose to the Columbus Blue Jackets they got outplayed heavily in the first period if you do
Want to go chronological that was an absolutely abysmal first period I think the shot totals were like 20 to five 20 to five yep um wow I’m him that was crazy um but it I mean just an absolutely disastrous first period And whatever was said in the locker room we got the
Lineup blender out there I’m sure we’ll talk plenty about that too yeah there’s one thing in particular dropped an fbom there that was close people playing with everybody man like everybody everybody playing everybody play with everybody for a little bit there it was a uh a wild
Hockey game but we’re back we had we had Austin zarnik centering Patrick Kane and Alex to Brink it the same Austin Austin zarnik who a week ago was centering Jonathan berren in Grand Rapids yeah and they were electric and they were electric dude shout out Austin zarck but
Like it’s not lost on me right that this team came out flat again and they just it and we’ll probably talk about it a little bit at more length later on but this team is so desperate to score the for first goal that they’re making dumb mistakes and giving up easy chances and
You can their goalies could not make a save like James Rymer yes had a 916 save percentage in this game you ask me if James Rymer had a good game I’m sorry and I don’t want to sound like a rhy or hater because like did he make the bulk majority of
The saves and did he face 30 plus shots in this game yes but were the goals he let in even the Breakaway goals softies also yes like we can’t get a go to make a up were were avoidable I would say um the same breath how many shots did he
Face he faced over 30 I think it was total he faced 35 shots so he had percent so contextualize right we just said they had 20 in the first like and you know he played the whole game so obviously the whole game is what matters but um he faced you know
15 shots across two periods uh as well and yeah every goal he gave up was a softy yeah yeah I mean that that power hung out to dry on two of them breakaways like that’s you know but he was a statue on one to get Frozen on a
Wrist shot and it still go past your glove and then that same thing happened on the the power play goal right in the third period early on in the third period it was a a shot from the top of the circle short side glove side and it
Just went right under his glove and it like he knew he should have had it but but I mean I guess on the flip side of it he did enough just enough to eek out the win at this point I will gladly take just enough to get a win well from
Everybody really on this roster well and that’s too like where we talk I guess transition now we kind of did this backwards and talked about a notable performer first for good or bad Rhymer was on my list we’re just buzzing the boys arez Buzz got back in the wind
Column back in the wind column back in the wild card as well as you this WI surpasses the Columbus Blue Jackets and with the Islanders loss separates You by three points now I think uh against the Islanders going Point still with Washington but yeah yeah and they have a
Game in hand as well but still I mean an important Win Regardless like this this win and I I am not kidding you this win saves their season for now like if they had lost this game the dag like the Thursday doesn’t matter in my opinion because they
Already have lost the season this is a blue Blue Jackets team that is heavily wounded injured throughout their lineup and I understand that you were missing wman you’re missing Lin you goas bear and Ras M were both under the weather but this is a heavily banged up Blue Jackets team
That’s eighth in the metropolitan trying to win the celebrini sweep stakes and you came out flat against them because this team’s just so desperate giving up easy chances and they give up the first goal and they become disheartened and unlike those with the exception of Buffalo unlike those other games they
Scored a goal to tie it up or bring it within one and then got finally got some Puck because that’s something we haven’t talked enough about with this team is in March they have a PDO of like 93% like so not only not only has this team been incredibly bad they’ve been incredibly
Unlucky too so finally they get a bounce with Mor ciders shot going off some guy skate good Branson skate to go on yeah and and even even with the um even with that included right in the third at the end of the third they were like they it felt like they should have
Tied the game like six different times like it it was incredible save and then it was you know off the post on a redirect and then it you know was uh was a was a de Brink it you know like whiff and there was like off the goalie skate
And it this was all in like two minutes two and a half minutes like all of these opportunities they had to tie the game and it just felt like oh my goodness like the bad luck is is is carrying over and like the bad Puck luck is just like
Still a thing and um thank goodness that they kind of broke the seal there and were able to tie it um and like we we’ve talked about how this is a Blue Jackets team like we we understand this is a b bad Blue Jackets team so winning four to three in overtime even
If it is in electric fashion and we will get to our difference makers because it’s pretty obvious who the two difference makers in this game are we’ll probably get to that in segment two with at this point because we’ve killed so much time we’re just riffing right now
But we understand that this is the Blue Jackets but you know I said it at the end of December and early January and I don’t want to get ahead of myself right because they still that’s one win after losing badly against Pittsburgh two in the last three but you still have won
What two games in the last 10 but I said it when the win streak started they went out to California and they faced two game two teams in California that are really bad and then the LA Kings who at the time were still technically good but
We’re kind of starting to stumble and I said after going into the Anaheim game the third of three that if you win that game the skid is over and I said it doesn’t matter the fashion in which they win the skid is over because they
Grinded out a win against a bad San Jose team they played really well against at the time at La King’s team that was starting to slide and then they grinded out another win against the Anaheim Ducks and you saw that that snowballed so just as bad winds can snowball and
We’ve seen that grinded out wins like this even where you get outplayed dramatically in the first period and then play pretty good in the second and the third at least on par with the Blue Jackets in the second and third getting the win can be a Snowball Effect positively
So going into the Islanders which is a home game on Thursday this momentum could carry now if you would asked me if we hadn’t had two games back toback on the weekend we could have just recapped the Buffalo Savers game I probably would have said the same thing so it’s also
Not lost on me that they had an opportunity already to allow that momentum to carry and they didn’t but I’m just saying that even though that this was a game against the Blue Jackets where you eak out a win it can be the start of a of a winning stretch not a
Winning streak but a winning stretch with what now 13 games remaining and just just hanging on to a wild card spot yeah that obviously that’s the hope the hope is that this translates into some sort of momentum Kane said it in the postgame presser uh as well like the
The hope is just that this can hopefully be some sort of you know momentum Snowball Effect going forward and uh then carry it into uh into obviously Thursday but then hopefully even beyond that absolutely know I’m getting greedy thinking that we might be able to win more than a game
But yeah so and I know this it’s just it feels like a relief and hopefully that carries over in a Thursday for the the boys they feel like the curse is lifted and they can carry that into the oh very important like like I said the season is saved for now
That Islanders game has so much carrying on it a lot like so much so they that’s a must win we’ll preview that obviously tomorrow but uh we got to get to a break when we come back we’ll give you our difference makers and our notal performers before uh giving you these
Scores around the league to update you on the Wild Card race although kind of already did that but anyways stay tuned to segment two of lockdown Red Wings passion drive and patience what brings home the winning trophy is also what keeps your ride or die alive eBay Motors has everything you need to
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Scotty been a long road because even the last win we got wasn’t even really talking about it because it was the weekend recap right so we the most recent G game was the loss so we haven’t done like a a pure just straight up win recap in March yet have we right it’s
March 20th and we haven’t done like a like a single game recap on a win literally in the month of March and crazy wh like a week and a half left crazy whiplash from February and January was literally all Victory recap yeah just Good Vibes right yeah big big ones
Can make a lot of difference apparently anyway Scotty we got to do notable performers we can’t keep playing the obvious uh I’m going to let you go first and solely because they’re they’re both very obvious and you can take one and I’ll take the other so who do you got
Yeah thanks man I’ll uh I’ll take Raymond you can take Kane Lucas Raymond and this is one that really goes beyond this game as well obviously this was a phenomenal performance by him uh but he the entire time that Lin has been out seems to be the only person that has consistently
Been producing uh and the only person that has been he I can’t say enough good things genuinely um he he’s been absolutely phenomenal and in this game we’ve been talking about it for a while but his Effectiveness as the bumper on the power play is remarkable like he has
Been Stellar Stellar Stellar Stellar in that role and uh and this this game was really no different but uh was good in all facets he had one shift was that in the second period he had like the the the really really ridiculous shift where he was uh he he caused a turnover was
Consistently you know buzzing in the offensive zone the entire offense seemed to be kind of formed around him uh this was as good of a performance as you will see from Lucas Raymond and I I I don’t I don’t want to get like too carried away
But I think it might might be one of the best not in terms of maybe like box scores specifically but uh it might be some of the best he’s looked in his entire career yeah no uh without a doubt I mean we talked about it this you were
Gonna see with Lin out who was going to step up to the plate and try and and be the guy for the Detroit Red Wings now in the first few games he was Lin was out Raymond didn’t do a whole lot I mean you
Look they so he L got hurt at the end of the Panthers game there’s one two three games where Raymond had three total shots in that span and obviously no points but since then he has eight points in the last five games seven of those are goals and I mean we talked
About it right on the last episode or the last game recap the weekend recap for Pittsburgh and buffalo he’s really discovered his scoring sh his scoring touch and it turns out all it took to discovering his scoring touch was for him to start shooting the puck like we
Already knew he was an electric playmaker but we hadn’t really gotten to witness his goal scoring capability he’s got a lethally accurate R rer snapshot and he’s been burying I mean four shots in this game two goals three shots against Pittsburgh two goals Two Shots against Buffalo one goal three shots
Against Arizona one goal three shots against Buffalo one goal like he has he been really effective right in front of the net even like he’s had two in that stretch that I think are right in front of the net down on one knee right just
Gets uh gets fed right in front of the net there um uh including this game obviously so yeah man he he’s really carved out a role for himself and uh Kane even joked about it in the presser he was like yeah man he’s been so good
Up the middle uh you know in the center of the whole offense and in front of the net that uh Kane joked with him that if you play too well you’re gonna keep you there your whole career so watch out but like that’s uh that he is really really
Excelled in that role and I think really kind of finally putting to bed the you know is he under sized thing because that is is not a small man’s role that he is feeling and he has absolutely excelled in it he also sets a new career
High in points with this game as well two goals to break his previous high so he’s at 59 points now in however many games played it is now for the Red Wings like uh 60 6 this is the 69th game so he’s he’s played all of them so it’s his uh 59
Points in 69 games for Lucas Raymond I just he’s going to get paid he’s gonna get paid and mo both right and deservedly so and then obviously the other Difference Maker Patrick Kane who assisted on both of Lucas Raymond’s goals it’s it’s kind of crazy I mean so
Much of Lucas Raymond’s production goal scoring is as a result of Patrick Kane’s playmaking ability too so you wonder why they don’t pair those guys up on the same line more consistently and I know they have tried and so maybe they just hasn’t worked out I don’t have the best
Memory so maybe you guys can remind me in the comments what the results were when they’re on the same line together but obviously he fed him on the power play he got the secondary assist fabri fed him out front and then with 12 seconds left Kane got the primary assist
Mainly because he shot the puck and Raymond buried the rebound but then with the overtime goal because who’s more clutch in overtime than Patrick Kane Kane’s also riding a five-game point streak where I think he has six or seven points in that span and that’s another
Player who and let’s be honest that was a player you expected to step up but early on in the losing streak he kind of went invisible but now he and Raymond both are just turning into the two guys you can rely on to keeping the Red Wings
In it and in this case winning it for the Detroit Red Wings so I mean extend Patrick Kane if he’s willing like I I said this like weeks ago when the Red Wings after I think it was the Blackhawks game I was like time to
Extend him do it if you can and if he’s willing to stay here because even at 35 he’s one of the most dynamic players on forward yeah that that it’s I I would love it if reality was it’s just easy enough to just be like
Hey we want you around for a couple more years let’s do it right now but that’s you know he is playing really well his Market is obviously going to determine a lot of that and uh or his value rather and uh 18 minutes in and I just noticed
That I didn’t have the proper background up just updated for you guys oh we have yesterday I had yesterday’s up so it was all negative on the Today’s Show she sorry I cut you off what were you saying no that was pretty much the end of my
Thought it was just uh you know the the better he plays the um uh I’m not the more unlikely certainly not what I mean I I think the Red Wings really want to keep Kane around um but uh certainly the uh the more negotiating that’s going to have to
Go into said extension yeah and so let’s move on now we got time for one notable performer for before getting into our second break um we already mentioned ryr as a notable performer for good and bad reasons deep pairs I mean the monkey paw kind of curled on us we asked for their
Shake Up In The Deep Pairs and then Jake wman is dayto day with a nagging injury which let’s be honest like I I didn’t say anything and so people are gonna be like oh of course you’re saying you noticed it now after not saying anything
But like after he sat for was a healthy scratch and had a maintenance day at practice like I did wonder like maybe there’s something nagging him and it felt like his skating was a little sluggish in the last few games but I wasn’t sure if that was because the team
Was sucking or if because he was hurt so I wasn’t wasn’t too surprised when I saw that he was day-to-day with an injury and so that meant cider and shro were your top pair and that was the reason why Edinson was called up to be paired
With Jeff Petri and then got Ma and gosis bear Stay Together cider and shurat looked good and they in fact they were two of the top three players at Cory 4 percentage and Cory 4 percentage relative for the Detroit Red Wings cider actually led the team on the newly
Updated hockey stat cards that now take into account quality uh of ice time and quality of competition he was solidly in the positive and they both and cider was one of two players that actually had a cor4 percentage over 50% in this game which in a game in which you got outshot
Heavily is kind of remarkable I thought cider and shot with shot actually let’s again admittedly having a bounceback season with despite how bad that pair of featuring shat can be yeah I thought they looked good and that was nice to see in a game where you really needed
Somebody to step up and play with cider who by the way got 24 minutes of ice time I’m not saying Derrik alone’s listens to podcast but I’m not not saying he does not not saying it um yeah great to see the uh the ice time for cider more than anything honestly but
Yeah I thought that that pair especially in the second and third looked really good uh and that kind of naturally transitions us into uh you know how how Edinson looked and we can do that if you want after the break here yeah that’s what you call tease we we’ll talk about
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Wings I’m muted during those right no I’m just kidding I know I’m not uh he’s you just here good job Brian good job Pat myself on the back uh listen man going to the finals with the men’s league team Red Wings Big Win Vibes are high I’m gonna be a dork all
Right it’s just it’s it’s unavoidable yeah the previous things that led up to that statement do not matter in uh that’s a correlation and causation situation here but uh yes false equivalency as they say uh anyways before Simon Edon one more thing about cider right we
Talked about how good he was uh he scored his eighth goal of the season that’s a new career highing goals for him of course a little bit of Puck luck but also he made it’s it’s going to go unnoticed but if you go back and watch overtime goal by Patrick Kane Lucas or
Mor cider ran interference as Patrick Kane broke down the wing as Columbus Blue Jacket tried to cut across and cider very sh nonchalantly got in the lane and went like this to play interference and those little things are what result in a winner so power play
One for him a goal and on the overtime playing interference leading the Patrick Kane’s goal so cider was great in that game just want to reiterate uh now Simon Edon on a pair with Jeff Petri Edon played big minutes in this game and I love that he played
18 minutes think was absolutely love it I mean it was necessary he was playing penalty kill as well on a penalty kill that was successfully killed off I might add so I know that his numbers are going to rank him second to last in Cory 4
Percentage but I gotta I gotta say and granted I missed a large chunk of the third period because of my own men’s league game so maybe there was something that happened in the third period that I didn’t see bad at all outside of one bad giveaway in the first
Period he was making good plays in the defensive Zone he was winning board battles and getting the puckup ice I liked what I saw to Simon evedon and I hope that he stays on the team when Jake wallman’s healthy yeah agreed certainly I mean we’ve been again we’ve been clamoring
For that for a while now obviously but yeah I I didn’t think he looked out of place out there at all obviously there’s a little bit of adjustment period that’s going to come along with it but I think he can absolutely help this team going forward and be a part of the playoff
Push and and uh and be a really effective member and in addition of this blue line he has he he has intangibles man right like he he has stuff that uh hard to teach and and sometimes even hard to see but yeah I absolutely have I
Don’t have any issue with I saw out of him in this game I think uh him and Petri is a is a interesting Duo I don’t know if that’s going to be the guaranteed you know the place where he slides in the rest of the year but um I
I hope that he continues to get playing time even when wman is back absolutely yeah I I liked what I saw for the most part I want to see him get more reps obviously he’s a rookie so you’re expected to not be a necessarily smooth transition but I love the fact that he
Immediately gave him big minutes and when wman comes back you know I’d be really curious because I think there’s a lot of interesting matchups obviously him being a left side defenseman but sherat gois bear Petri Hull cider of course all play right side you have a lot of potential matchups to
Try and try out Edinson and I think that he has a lot of potential to contribute to this team down the stretch uh also Austin zarnik 1C like we talked about a little bit earlier already but yeah man I just wanted to re iterate because that’s crazy and what was crazier was
How freaking good he looked between Patrick Kane and Alex to Brink it they played nine minutes at five on five after an egregious first he took over the the role of Center between those two a guy like I said earlier played was playing Top Line with Buren in Grand
Rapids a week ago to be on a cing those two and then have a 70% Cory 4 percentage as a line and an 80% expected goals four percentage as a line in nine minutes of five on five hockey like I love zarnik already have a soft spot for
Those kind of Underdog type players you’re great your heart and your hustle not a lot of skill but he was he he looks good in the other games too but he flies he hustles and like that’s the type of guy you need to feed a slow and
Old Patrick Kane who still has his playmaking touch and an Alex to Brink it who in theory is your finisher and of course we all know has had four yeah we talk about that later um but yeah I um I think sometimes even he got a little too like I have to get
The puck to Patrick Kane right now right like he had a couple of turnovers that way had a couple of giveaways just like he tried one completely like cross ice through four people like past just to like you know get it to Kaner and and I think that uh that that’s probably you
Know just I don’t know there’s probably some Jitters playing with Patrick like right after you get called up I’d imagine but yeah man we’ve talked about it a lot like he’s been skating really well since getting the call up um is looked really good yeah I uh it’s like
Like we talked about earlier that those lines got completely put in a blender in that after that abysmal first period and that was one of the combinations that came out on the other side and it didn’t look half bad it worked and you know we
If it works you don’t mess with it they had 12 shot attempts for and only five shot attempts against like what we we absolutely take that uh the last thing I got as far as the Detroit Red Wings game goes actually I think that might have been it I think
That covered it trying to think shout out Michael rasm by the way not for his play but for the fact that in the game against Pittsburgh and then with another assist in this game he set a new career high in points himself I just want to I
Think he he had a roller coaster of a game so and it would be great if Dylan Lin could be back on on Thursday but I know Lon said it would be aggressive to assume he could return against the Islanders but man what a game would it
Be for him to return to yes he’ll get a full practice on Wednesday though they said yeah then that that’s going to be the the gauge obviously that’ll be the the test so we’ll see but I mean as far as this game goes I think we’ve covered
All the most notable points I think that’s everything we wanted to cover yeah uh and then just a quick look around the league at what’s going on right now uh the Sabers are losing to the Canucks as of recording this two to nothing at the end of the second period
The lightning and the golden knights are tied two to two at the end of the second period both those games out west obviously uh then you have the this one doesn’t matter for standings but the Bruins beat the senator six to2 the Devils beat the Penguins five to2 which
Is probably the better of the two outcomes what I was happy with just a regulation one but with the Devils behind the Penguins having them fight for points and the Devils catch up the penguin Penguins is probably better Flyers did beat the Maple Leafs which is
Actually a bad thing because we want the Flyers to lose so that if either Washington or the Islanders jump up into a wild card spot it they immediately jump into the Metropolitan third division spot but the Islanders the biggest one Islanders lost four to one
To the hurricane so you add a little bit of Separation in that regard so taking a look at the standings uh it’s Tampa Bay in the first wild card spot with 78 points Red Wings now just two points back of course that subject to change with the lightning possibly winning or
Losing uh you’ll find out by the time most of you guys recording this capitals one point behind the Red Wings for that final wild card spot with two games in hand the Islanders one game in hand against the Red Wings three points back and it goes down from there hanging on but again
Thursday’s might be a make or break moment for the the season we just got to hope that they can carry this momentum in to a home ice game against a team that’s battling with you please please please please we’ll preview that one tomorrow obviously but yeah please yeah absolutely uh Scotty do
You have any final thoughts for the people I don’t think so man we ball we ball please stop giving up breakaways we’ll be back with a new episode tomorrow same time same place it’s your team every day every day
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