{"id":927216,"date":"2026-10-10T01:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927216\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:56:12","slug":"are-the-larkin-hellebuyck-situations-the-most-awkward-in-nhl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927216\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Larkin, Hellebuyck situations the most awkward in NHL history?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a follower of the NBA of NFL, players \u2018holding out\u2019 for either a trade or a new contract is nothing new. In the NHL, though, it hasn\u2019t been as commonplace to see players use their leverage to induce a desired outcome. That was, however, until this past offseason, when Detroit Red Wings<\/a> center Dylan Larkin and Winnipeg Jets<\/a> goaltender Connor Hellebuyck requested trades from their respective teams.<\/p>\n

The Larkin and Hellebuyck situations aren\u2019t exactly the same. Larkin, at the very least, is playing to a chorus of boos in Detroit after not getting the trade he wanted over the offseason. Hellebuyck, on the the other hand, is committing to a full-fledged hold out, having yet to report to the Jets this season.<\/p>\n

On Friday\u2019s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0host Tyler Yaremchuk was joined by Jeff Marek to discuss whether the NHL has had any precedents to the current Larkin and Hellebuyck standoffs.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0Looking back, this Larkin thing and this Hellebuyck thing, where do they rank for you in the all-time \u201cthis got awkward\u201d moments between team and player? Are they that rare in hockey history? When was the last time you\u2019ve seen something this bad that you can remember?<\/p>\n

Jeff\u00a0Marek:\u00a0Alexei Yashin, so like 1999. The thing about it, too, is there have been plenty of players that have asked for trades. We just never hear about them, or we hear about them afterwards. \u201cYeah, he asked for a trade two years ago.\u201d This is nothing new. The idea of making the trade request as a tactic, I think that\u2019s become more prevalent. But there were plenty of players, and this was pre-salary cap, players would refuse to come to camp unless their contracts were renegotiated. Not with a certain frequency, but it did happen, and with big-name players. <\/p>\n

Once upon a time in the NHL, a player would say \u201cI just had a great season, I should renegotiate my contract,\u201d and the agent has the player do a legitimate hold out, unlike a player that doesn\u2019t have a contract. That\u2019s not a hold out, they just don\u2019t have a contract so they don\u2019t go to work. But it\u2019s happened, and it\u2019s happened with big-name players in the past. Historically, we\u2019ve seen weirder things happen, but this one we haven\u2019t seen in the salary cap era or the \u201cnew\u201d NHL. We haven\u2019t seen it with the NHL where the logo is silver and goes up as opposed to orange and goes down.<\/p>\n

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Friday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re a follower of the NBA of NFL, players \u2018holding out\u2019 for either a trade or a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-927216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}