{"id":478752,"date":"2026-02-19T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478752\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:19:09","slug":"its-no-secret-what-dylan-larkins-quest-for-olympic-gold-means-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478752\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no secret what Dylan Larkin&#8217;s quest for Olympic gold means for US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN \u2014 It\u2019s been almost a decade since Dylan Larkin competed in the NHL playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>That was at the end of his rookie season in 2015-16, when the Red Wings could muster only one win against the Lightning in a five-game, first-round series. Detroit has since missed the playoffs for nine consecutive seasons, which is the league\u2019s second-longest postseason drought.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings were in playoff position when the Olympic break began.<\/p>\n<p>For Larkin, however, helping Team USA into gold medal position first would be welcomed by a player <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/16\/sports\/usas-dylan-larkin-overjoyed-after-scoring-biggest-goal-of-career\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who hasn\u2019t truly won anything<\/a> in 12 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 It\u2019s been almost a decade since Dylan Larkin competed in the NHL playoffs. That was at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1786,385,1082,99,362,358,42270,40235,58926,211565],"class_list":["post-478752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-nhl","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-team-usa","tag-usa-hockey","tag-winter-olympics","tag-winter-olympics-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}