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NHL Notebook: Red Wings’ Dylan Larkin requests trade
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Lane Golden
Jun 4, 2026, 20:00 EDTUpdated: Jun 4, 2026, 21:40 EDT
“There’s a lot to unpack here,” Friedman wrote. “First, should mention that no one would comment. Not Larkin, not agent Pat Brisson, not Red Wings executive vice-resident and general manager Steve Yzerman.
“Second, Larkin’s involvement in the trade market is massive,” Friedman added. “He has a full no-trade clause both this season and next, so his control over the situation does not change July 1. He’s a top-line centre in a league desperate for centres, so there’s going to be a ton of interest. His play at the 4 Nations and Olympics was stellar. That’s going to excite potential trade partners.”
Larkin, 29, has five years remaining on an eight-year contract that carries an AAV of $8.7 million, according to PuckPedia. The news comes after a late-season collapse that cost the team a playoff berth for a franchise-record 10th consecutive season.
Larkin has played his entire career with the Red Wings, who selected him 15th overall at the 2014 NHL draft. In 2021, the club named him the 37th captain in franchise history, succeeding Henrik Zetterberg. Larkin has played 728 games since his one and only playoff appearance in 2015-16, recording 598 points in that span.
This season, he finished second on the Red Wings in goals, with 34, and third in points with 67 en route to a sixth-place finish in the Atlantic Division.
A year ago, Larkin voiced his displeasure with management’s lack of aggressiveness at the trade deadline.
We didn’t gain any momentum from the trade deadline, and guys were kinda down about it. So it’d be nice to add something and bring a little bit of a spark on the ice and a morale boost as well,” he said during his season-ending availability last year.
At the 2026 trade deadline, Yzerman traded for veteran winger David Perron, who scored three points in 16 games for the Red Wings, and defenceman Justin Faulk, who was a minus-five in Detroit while tallying eight points in 17 games.
According to Friedman, Larkin has a “frosty relationship” with Yzerman.
Larkin played for Team USA at both the 4-Nations Face-Off and the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, where he recorded five points in 10 games across the two tournaments. He helped lead USA to its first Olympic gold medal since the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980.

Marcus Foligno wins King Clancy Memorial Trophy

Minnesota Wild alternate captain Marcus Foligno has won the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, given each year “to the player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community.”
Foligno, 34, was visiting the Masonic Cancer Center in Minneapolis with his wife and kids when his brother, Nick Foligno was waiting in one of the rooms to surprise him with the trophy.
Nick previously won the award back in 2017, thanks to his support of children’s hospitals and cancer research. Janis Foligno, Nick and Marcus’s late mother, died from breast cancer in 2009.
Now Marcus will follow in his brother’s footsteps, with his name engraved on the award in recognition of his co-creation of the Foligno Face-Off, which raised more than $200,000 for breast cancer research during this season.
The Foligno Faceoff began while the two brothers were playing on separate teams. Fans were encouraged to donate $17 (Marcus’s jersey number) or $71 (Nick’s) to show support for either brother during games between the Wild and Chicago Blackhawks. When Nick was traded to the Wild in March, the campaign continued, “turning what began as a sibling rivalry into a shared mission to advance cancer research.”
All 32 teams nominate one player for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy each season. Winners are selected by a committee that includes NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, former King Clancy winners, and former NHL Foundation Player Award winners. The King Clancy recipient also receives $25,000 to support the charity of his choice.
Marcus Foligno has played nine seasons on the Wild and is the third player to win the award with the franchise, joining Jason Zucker (2019) and Matt Dumba (2020). The trophy was first awarded in 1988, presented to the NHL by then-Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard.
Foligno has played 931 career NHL games over 15 seasons split between the Wild and Buffalo Sabres, where he’s produced 148 goals and 336 points. He’s notched seven goals and 14 points in 45 career playoff games.

Utah Mammoth need to take next step as a contender

The Utah Mammoth achieved their most important goal for the 2025-26 season, making the playoffs for the first time before falling in the first round to the eventual Western Conference champion Vegas Golden Knights.
The club has about $13 million in cap space heading into next season and plenty of draft capital for general manager Bill Armstrong to be aggressive this summer and fill some roster holes.
Progression from key young players like Logan Cooley and Dylan Guenther should further the team’s ability to level up.
On Thursday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, host Tyler Yaremchuk and co-host and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed what Armstrong can do this summer to help push the Mammoth from being a good team to a great team.
Tyler Yaremchuk: Up today is the Utah Mammoth, and you know last year they made the big shake-up getting JJ Peterka. I don’t know if that move necessarily is an A-plus when you look at it in hindsight considering you know [Josh] Doan had an awesome year in Buffalo, and Peterka was pretty inconsistent with the Mammoth this year, but they made the playoffs, that was kind of priority number one. And the goal and now I think the task at hand for Bill Armstrong, Hutts, is to find a way to get this team from the playoff conversation to the, ‘Oh they’re right there with the Minnesotas and the Dallas’ in the Central Division.
Carter Hutton: Yeah, I think so, and I think that is the worrisome, like, to rush it, right? I think patience is going to be important because of the fact you look at what the Central Division is still going to offer next year, and it’s going to be deep, but you want to take a step forward. You want to keep developing. Now it’s trying to find the players that are going to fit in here to grow with your group, right? You have a really good core to grow around. I know you lock up Nick Schmalz, you have Clayton Keller, Lawson Crouse on that first line that he has up there. Those are veteran guys that are going to fit in anywhere can play up and down your lineup that with Guenther and Cooley and you start to put, hopefully Peterka takes a step forward, things start to look really good in Utah. My concern for them when I sit here is the amount of games that Karel Vejmelka played, and Vitek Vanecek is going to be in the outside looking in. Do you go out and find someone now to push him a little bit and give him a relief? Because I think 64 games is really, really high when we talk about today’s day and age and goaltending, and then you look at the playoffs, at times you look tired. I think you’ve got to protect him a little bit, so maybe going out and finding a key piece that you can give a few million bucks to for a year or two as you start to develop your prospects will be important… I still don’t think you’re there next year, and maybe it’s two years away, where you can really start to push more in the Central because with the way the Dallas, Minnesota, Colorado looks, it looks like odds are you would still be that wild card team.

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