While veteran forward Detroit Red Wings would prefer a move away from the Detroit Red Wings, his limited wish list could be a hindrance toward that pursuit.<\/p>\n
The Detroit Free Press’ Helene St. James<\/a> reported Monday that Larkin is believed to be willing to waive his no-trade clause for a move to the Florida Panthers, Vegas Golden Knights or Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n St. James also cited the New York Islanders, Anaheim Ducks and Tampa Bay Lightning as plausible options, but that might require some convincing on Detroit’s part.<\/p>\n Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman<\/a> reported last week that Larkin requested a trade.<\/p>\n “Because no one will talk, we can only guess at the rationale, but there appear to be two critical factors: Detroit’s inability to make the playoffs, and a somewhat frosty relationship between the captain and the team’s top hockey executive (Steve Yzerman),” Friedman wrote.<\/p>\n Larkin had 34 goals and 33 assists this season, his fifth straight year with 60-plus points. The 29-year-old is under con<\/a>tract<\/a> through 2030-31 as well, so he has a long way to go until he’s eligible for free agency.<\/p>\n Finding somebody willing to give up a lot of trade capital for Larkin shouldn’t be an issue for the Red Wings.<\/p>\n His $8.7 million average annual salary could, however, dissuade some contenders from making an aggressive play, which adds to the challenge his full no-trade clause creates.<\/p>\n Puckpedia<\/a> projects the Golden Knights to have just $4.6 million in available salary cap space. The Panthers are already paying five forwards (Aleksander Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Reinhart, Sam Bennett and Carter Verhaeghe) $7 million or more per year. The Wild have some breathing room ($12.8 million) for right now, but they’re likely planning their long-term budget with a Quinn Hughes extension<\/a> in mind.<\/p>\n Yzerman could have a difficult task on his hands.<\/p>\n Teams further down the pecking order are positioned to make the strongest offers, but Larkin will clearly desire going to a ready-made contender. For a number of reasons, the latter scenario could force Detroit to accept 50 cents on the dollar<\/a> or less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While veteran forward Detroit Red Wings would prefer a move away from the Detroit Red Wings, his limited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-691965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691965","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=691965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}