It's easier to send Larkin down then to make room for him through trades, especially this early in the season. Holland won't make the risk with a 19 year-old rookie.
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It's easier to send Larkin down then to make room for him through trades, especially this early in the season. Holland won't make the risk with a 19 year-old rookie.
If he keeps up his current play there's no way Holland could justify it, and Blashill will have a fit. He's arguably been our second best player, you can't send that player down.
Larkin will force Holland's hand if he keeps playing the way he's playing. He'll have no choice.
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I dont think he's getting sent down. He makes the team better and he's clearly ready, so being in the NHL is whats best for his development.
Cyborg Yzerberg
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I have to think that the return of Helm and Datsyuk will simply alter the depth chart to accommodate Larkin.
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Helm is coming back on the fourth line, so he wont be bumping Larkin from the line up. Obviously Datsyuk could because hes the better player but Larkin will just be less likely to center his own line now and play wing more when Datsyuk comes back I think
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I think Z just slides over to LW for Pav and Larkin, Richards, Glendening are still the other centers. Sheahan hasn't looked very good this year tbh, dunno what the problem is but he hasn't looked very confident so far imo. He very well might be spending significant time on the wing this season.
The responses seem almost canned at this point. Not only that, but people keep moving the goalposts to the point of giving you whiplash. You can't ever keep up with them.
The kid comes out of no where, get drafted , tears it up and leaves the a lot of people wondering if he should have gone higher than where he was drafted. Little do the scouts know, at HFboards we already have the solution! Forget potential. Forget any possibility of passing any and all eye tests. Every argument. Every prospect, with the exception of the top 1-5, are boiled down to sample-size fights over the internet.
Larkin has, so far, proven his naysayers wrong so many times by now that these same people just keep adding to the already long list of things.
He starts producing more than initially scouted (although the report stated the potential was there)
*Let's see if he can continue, and it's not a fluke
Keeps continuing on a bigger stage
*Flukey. It's because he was on a 3rd line
Keeps producing
*He needs to see if he can do it in the pro's
Does in in the AHL
*Needs to show he can produce in the NHL
Playing well in the NHL, and producing
*product of his linemates, and it's a small sample-size.
I'm sure he'll scratch this one off his list and people will bump it up to
*It's just one season, he needs to show he can have repeat success in the NHL.
I honestly haven't seen a prospect have to go through so many hoops just to a simple nod from the hockey fanbase. Although, HFboards are pretty much hung up on drafting pedigree. So if this dude was top 5, and doing as well as he was/is? There would be 5 threads about him. Be he's not. So in stead he have Mceichel threads all over the place stating "it's just a matter of time before the start producing."
Gotta love HFboards.
The kid comes out of no where, get drafted , tears it up and leaves the a lot of people wondering if he should have gone higher than where he was drafted. Little do the scouts know, at HFboards we already have the solution! Forget potential. Forget any possibility of passing any and all eye tests. Every argument. Every prospect, with the exception of the top 1-5, are boiled down to sample-size fights over the internet.
Larkin has, so far, proven his naysayers wrong so many times by now that these same people just keep adding to the already long list of things.
He starts producing more than initially scouted (although the report stated the potential was there)
*Let's see if he can continue, and it's not a fluke
Keeps continuing on a bigger stage
*Flukey. It's because he was on a 3rd line
Keeps producing
*He needs to see if he can do it in the pro's
Does in in the AHL
*Needs to show he can produce in the NHL
Playing well in the NHL, and producing
*product of his linemates, and it's a small sample-size.
I'm sure he'll scratch this one off his list and people will bump it up to
*It's just one season, he needs to show he can have repeat success in the NHL.
I honestly haven't seen a prospect have to go through so many hoops just to a simple nod from the hockey fanbase. Although, HFboards are pretty much hung up on drafting pedigree. So if this dude was top 5, and doing as well as he was/is? There would be 5 threads about him. Be he's not. So in stead he have Mceichel threads all over the place stating "it's just a matter of time before the start producing."
Gotta love HFboards.
As a Wings fan it just makes it even more satisfying when he's successful. The Wings may have very well landed a franchise center outside of the top ten draft picks after 24 years of playoffs along with 4 Cups. Enjoy it. The team isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Henkka
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Holland did same with Jurco last year. And with Mrazek. Both were exempt from waivers but stayed up.
Same with Larkin and Marchenko at this season.
It's new era going at Detroit and it already started at last season.
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Rumor mill is stating that its likely going to be Andersson waived when Helm comes back this week instead of sending Larkin down.
Cyborg Yzerberg
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That's not really how it went down though. Jurco came up amidst the wave of injuries we had the previous season and just never went back down. Monster got hurt last year and Petr got called up and never went back down either, especially after Howard got hurt. The Larkin situation is definitely treading new territory.
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Mrazek was being sent down when Gus and Howard were going to come back from an injury. Lucky for Petr Gus is made of glass and got injured in his 1st game back.
Some people actually defended that move 2.
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lol, i'm joking. I'm a Wings fan. Just trying to think up another reason people will come up with as to why he wasn't impressive.
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