The Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan has examined the Red Wings personnel at the goaltending and defensive positions, and today, he discusses the Wings’ forward corps, speaking with Dylan Larkin regarding the Wings’ younger roster up front:
“We were the kids, but now there’s even younger kids coming in,” said [Dylan] Larkin, noting, in particular, Rasmussen and Zadina, the last two first-round draft picks. “So myself, Double-A, Mo, Tyler, it’s going to be competitive from within. But we do need to grasp that bigger role of being a leader, doing the right things, setting the example of hard work right from day one in training camp.”
Having missed the playoffs the last two seasons – after a 25-year consecutive stretch of qualifying – Larkin wants to bring back the “winning culture.”
“We need to win games, we need to have that winning culture the veterans have taught us and win games here,” Larkin said. “The fans want it, we want it. The young kids, they want to come in and make an impact right away.”
Larkin recently signed a five-year contract worth $30.5 million, a sign of the faith by the organization in Larkin’s ability and potential going forward after taking a big step in his career last season.
Larkin wants to further grow as a player this season. He had 47 assists and 63 points – both team-highs.
“I need to build on last year and improve,” Larkin said. “For myself and for the team, and be a big-time player where if the game has a minute left, we’re up by a goal or we’re down by a goal, (I’m) taking a big face-off to win it back and score the big goal or score the empty-netter, something just to win games.”
kulfan just another stenographer of krazy kennys , its how this hideous globalist controled media works = everything the ruling class does is presented as wonderful including the work of every nhl gm . so theres no use reading kulfan because you already know its bubble gum and loli pops
wow. so now Hockey is political.