{"id":684689,"date":"2026-06-04T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:16:08","slug":"detroit-red-wings-captain-dylan-larkin-requests-trade-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684689\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin requests trade: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin has requested a trade, a league source told The Athletic. <\/p>\n

The request, which was first reported by Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman, could have franchise-changing implications for the Red Wings.<\/p>\n

Larkin, who will turn 30 at the end of July, has been Detroit\u2019s captain since 2021 and is the only current Red Wing who was on the team for its last playoff appearance in 2016. He has played 11 seasons in Detroit \u2014 his hometown team, growing up in nearby Waterford, Mich. \u2014 with 643 points in 808 games. The Red Wings, however, have not made the playoffs since Larkin\u2019s rookie year in 2015-16, a 10-year drought that stands as the longest active streak in the NHL.<\/p>\n

Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman and Larkin appeared to clash publicly a year ago<\/a> after the center\u2019s comments about the Red Wings\u2019 lack of moves at the 2025 trade deadline. Certainly, Larkin\u2019s frustration has, at times, been evident through the playoff drought.<\/p>\n

Still, this is a shocking development.<\/p>\n

Entering the summer, the Red Wings were, of course, frustrated by yet another late-season collapse, but still sounded like a team trying to get over the hump and into the playoffs. When asked after the season about his patience, Larkin spoke like someone who expected to be back in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Discussing the eight-year contract he signed back in 2023, Larkin said: \u201cI knew that we had work to do, and I knew that we weren\u2019t going to win the Stanley Cup the next day, but I wanted to be here, and I want to be here, to help this team in any way I can to win a Stanley Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, with this news, the entire outlook changes for the Red Wings.<\/p>\n

Larkin has a full no-trade clause, which complicates the situation further. He will have some control over the process, which could limit the Red Wings\u2019 options.<\/p>\n

While Larkin has not had much team success in Detroit, he is coming off the biggest win of his career in the Olympics. Larkin was on the ice for the winning goal, scored by Jack Hughes, in the U.S.\u2019s 2-1 overtime victory against Canada in the gold medal game.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to keep thinking back that we did it,\u201d Larkin said shortly after the win. \u201cAnd that feeling of when Jack scored, throwing our gloves in the air, not knowing what to do, just screaming, yelling for 20 minutes on the ice, celebrating with guys \u2014 it was memories I\u2019ll remember forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin has requested a trade, a league source told The Athletic. The request,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1786,385,99],"class_list":["post-684689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684689","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=684689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}