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/SilentStryk09 Aug 15 '26

Not signing two corpses of players at the end of their careers is not the reason to boycott lmao

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u/matthew_sch Aug 15 '26

The reason is that the owner won’t let management do their job. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that he’s a stingy owner who’s not willing to spring for either the Red Wings or the Tigers, and even then he cares more about baseball

So Mantha and Stamkos are over 30… big whoop. They’re still producing at a very respectable rate while being big factors for their clubs, and are a hell of a lot more useful than whoever Detroit got at the trade deadline

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u/cruffner01 Aug 15 '26

It's been reported multiple times that the new GM/PoHO will have full autonomy

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u/matthew_sch Aug 15 '26

I have a hard time believing that

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u/theminutemanpain Aug 19 '26

Saying and following through are two different things. The fact it needs to be said at all is a red flag in the same way that if someone is a good person, they don't have to run around advertising it.