• The Red Wings would have no problem trading Dylan Larkin to Minnesota if the Wild were prepared to part with Matt Boldy. Other than Boldy, there is nothing else Detroit GM Steve Yzerman is too interested in.
That leaves Larkin with three choices:
1. Open up the trade demand to more teams. The Wild and Golden Knights don’t have anything that excites Detroit.
2. Prepare to start next season with the Red Wings.
3. Prepare to stay home and not get paid.
As of July 1, door No. 2 looks like his best bet.
Continued; I believe that the Wings will be a *little* more flexible in terms of a trade return, but right now, GM SY is holding out for the best deal possible. That’s his prerogative.
Nothing new on Dylan Larkin, for what it’s worth, I think Steve Yzerman is going to wait on this and he has no issue making Larkin come to camp if he doesn’t get a deal in place that he likes.
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Alex DeBrincat has also been getting trade interest from other teams, but there’s a big difference between teams calling the Red Wings and the Red Wings actively “shopping” him, which is not the case.
Continued (paywall, but $7 is affordable); I don’t expect the Wings to ask Larkin to come to training camp at LCA this fall, should a trade not be consummated by that time. It would cause too much of a distraction. I’d suggest that he stay home instead.
The Wings would like a top-six center and a winger in return for Larkin. That may sound like a high price, but it’s their right to play hardball. They have little depth down the middle, and losing Larkin without getting a center in return would weaken the roster and hamper attempts to end what’s now a 10-year playoff drought – the longest active run in the league. The Wings already were looking to add a scoring winger, and, for that matter, strengthen the second-line center spot, before the Larkin situation unfolded.
None of Larkin’s desired destination teams have made an offer acceptable to the Wings. The Panthers may not even be in play anymore after acquiring forward Brady Tkachuk from Ottawa on June 21, not to mention goalie Jacob Markstrom in a deal with New Jersey on Tuesday.
As much as Larkin holds power via his no-trade clause, the Wings hold power in not being obligated to trade him. It wouldn’t be an ideal situation for Larkin to have to report to training camp in in September – the expectation, for starters, would be that he turn in his captaincy. He’d have to deal with a segment of upset fans at home games. The Wings would have to make do without a captain, as it would be unfair to the next guy – Moritz Seider fits the bill – to be named in such circumstances.
Continued; again, I expect the Red Wings to require a 3rd team to “flip” whatever future assets they receive for Larkin in order to acquire “right now” help;
I might also suggest that the Wings pursue a trade for disgruntled Vancouver Canucks center Elias Pettersson as well.
The 33-year-old is a veteran of 682 NHL games (with 219 goals among 443 points), most recently contributing 25 goals, 29 assists and a plus-20 rating in 14:35 of ice time per game for the Bruins in 2025-26. He has also appeared in 91 playoff games (46 points). Arvidsson (5 feet 10, 181 pounds) has a quality the Wings don’t have enough of among their forwards: He is tenacious and consistent about going to the net, plays with pace and is a 200-foot player.
REDA: There are a couple of centres looking for a change of scenery. What’s the latest on Dylan Larkin and Vincent Trocheck, Dregs?
DREGER: Yeah, and both of those guys are linked. It seems likely that if Larkin gets traded, then Trocheck, most likely, will be not that far behind.
I know a number of teams that have expressed some interest in Trocheck have circled back. To this point, Larkin has not been willing to expand his no-trade list, and it’s a limited list, as we know.
Dreger’s comment here clashes with other insiders’ takes. If he’s not expanding his trade list, it’s still Tampa Bay, Florida and Minnesota. LeBrun reported that Larkin was willing to expand his list of teams to which he’s willing to be traded, presumably per Larkin’s agent, Pat Brisson, but things can change quickly in these scenarios.
That puts the Detroit Red Wings in a real bind here. They know what they need to replace the talent of Larkin. They can’t go backwards in a deal like this.
So if a deal doesn’t materialize, if Larkin doesn’t expand his limited no-trade list, well, then that means that the Red Wings are expecting Larkin to show up in training camp. I don’t think that would be best case scenario for either the player or the team.
Maybe Trocheck and the New York Rangers will pull the trigger sooner rather than later. But again, these two veteran centres are linked in some capacities.
Continued; I can’t imagine the Wings having Larkin show up for training camp as a disgruntled captain, but Larkin probably won’t be traded this week, either.
“I met Jimmy Howard yesterday, and he was the reason I got into the goaltending,” Guimond said following the second day of Red Wings Development Camp. “He had these Vaughn pads with Icebergs on them, and as a kid, you kind of look at what you see, right?”
While Howard initially began his professional career wearing Reebok pads, he switched to the eye-popping Iceberg design from Vaughn, a popular brand that Chris Osgood wore for much of his career.
Howard kept that design from 2009 through 2014, and it became known as his signature look. While Guimond wasn’t able to convince his father to pay for customized pads as a youngster, Howard’s gear still left an indelible impression on him.
“I thought it was really cool and wanted to get into goaltending,” he said. “Obviously, my dad didn’t want to pay for custom stuff when I was that age, so I never got those Vaughn Iceberg pads.”
Appearing in 50 games [with the Moncton Wildcats], Guimond led all QMJHL goaltenders with 40 victories while posting a league-best 2.27 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage, eventually earning the Patrick-Roy Trophy as Goaltender of the Year.
