Take this from Detroit Hockey Now’s Kevin Allen, writing his daily blog for Hockeybuzz, for what you will:
No news may not be good news for the Detroit Red Wings in their negotiations with Dylan Larkin and Tyler Bertuzzi. Both players can be unrestricted free agents next summer. Larkin is Detroit’s captain and a hometown hero. It was assumed that negotiation would go smoothly, but training camp is around the corner. It is not done yet. There has been nothing to suggest that they are close to a deal.
1. I am mildly uncomfortable regarding the fact that Larkin hasn’t re-signed, though there’s still time between now and October 14th. I had a feeling that the Bertuzzi negotiations would be tricky;
2. Sometimes we just don’t know. Very little comes out of Yzerman land in terms of any indications as to whether players are going to sign or not sign, whether there is progress or no progress. Even somebody as tuned-in as Kevin Allen is might not to be able to discern that much.
We won’t know until we know. And that’s perhaps the least comfortable part of the equation.
