{"id":354421,"date":"2026-06-10T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354421\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:02:24","slug":"could-sharks-stars-nudge-their-way-into-larkin-sweepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354421\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Sharks, Stars nudge their way into Larkin sweepstakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was shaping up to be a relatively uneventful summer for the NHL, at least in terms of player movement. The upcoming class of unrestricted free agents is hardly exciting, and the trade market looked rather dry. That was until June 4th, when it was reported that star Detroit Red Wings<\/a> center Dylan Larkin has requested a trade<\/a> out of Detroit.<\/p>\n

Larkin, who is set to turn 30 this offseason, is the type of bona fide number-one center that rarely becomes available. However, not every team will have a chance at acquiring him. Larkin has a full no-trade clause on his current contract<\/a>, meaning any interested team would need his consent before trading for him. It\u2019s already been reported<\/a> that the Florida Panthers<\/a>, Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>, and Minnesota Wild<\/a> have all gotten Larkin\u2019s stamp of approval, but that doesn\u2019t mean other teams couldn\u2019t garner consideration.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s episode of\u00a0Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton were joined by The Fourth Period\u2018s David Pagnotta to discuss which teams could realistically be in the mix to acquire Larkin.<\/p>\n

Carter\u00a0Hutton:\u00a0Obviously everyone has turned on their ears with this Larkin situation. He gives out his list of Minny, Vegas, and Florida, and they say that list is expanding. Where can his team list go from what he\u2019s aired so far?<\/p>\n

David Pagnotta:\u00a0The way it\u2019s been described to me is those are his preferred destinations, but I think he\u2019s open to more than that. I\u2019ve heard Dallas, I\u2019ve heard San Jose. I\u2019ve heard a couple other teams. The Minnesota connection is clear with Quinn Hughes. You\u2019ve got Jack Eichel in Vegas, and you\u2019ve got Matthew Tkachuk in Florida. The common denominator, outside of them being buddies, is also the fact that you\u2019ve got that Team USA winning vibe still rolling, and they\u2019ve tasted that. They want to keep that going now. <\/p>\n

This is different than some of the other situations we\u2019ve seen in the past because Larkin\u2019s been here through a stretch. He\u2019s been through the ups and a lot of downs in Detroit. It finally hit a wall where he was like \u201cI can\u2019t take this anymore, this is enough for me. I want to start winning and you\u2019re not showing me signs that we\u2019re going to turn the corner here. I want an opportunity to win.\u201d This is different than the Quinn Hughes situation where he\u2019s not going to sign and he wants a different environment because they\u2019re going through a rebuild. This is him dealing with 10 years of nothing. He played five playoff games in his rookie year and that was it. A little bit of a different scenario, but it does put Detroit in a bit of a pickle, because if they wanted to start taking next steps in this rebuild that\u2019s taken way too long, it may force them to continue to go in this direction because I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a hockey trade that necessarily is there to be made. This is probably more futures driven, but we\u2019ll see what (Steve) Yzerman can pull off.<\/p>\n

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Tuesday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was shaping up to be a relatively uneventful summer for the NHL, at least in terms of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-354421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}