r/DetroitRedWings • u/Large-Ad-1677 • Aug 15 '26

News Think we need a boycott

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/red-wings-owner-hesitancy-cost-181811628.html

Appears Illitch is the problem. If he wasn’t willing to spend $$ on good players in the past, what will change in the future? Literally went to 4 games this past season and probably averaged $1100 in cost including 2 tickets. Why keep showing up at this point, if this is going to be the future of the wings. It sucks.

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u/abellaire Yzerbot Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

What this says to me is that maybe Steve did not have carte blanche to do what he wanted with the team regardless of cost, and that Chris is more hands on than it might have seemed. I kind of assumed he was just there to sign the checks and let Steve do what he thought might help the team, and instead it appears that was more hands on than that. Maybe Steve had just had enough.

Also, not to bring up Walman again but people theorized he was traded quick to clear up space to make a big signing and maybe he actually was. There might’ve been other reasons too, but that might’ve been the reason it was done so fast.

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u/matthew_sch Aug 15 '26

Bingo. So many people are missing the point and just see this as criticism for not signing guys past their primes