Rumor: Larkin requests trade

[Realgud]

The more different the team looks at the start of next season, the better. It’ll buy time for the GM and coach and renew interest among many fans, instead of running it back with only a marginal improvement as the goal. I hope trading Larkin is just the start (assuming he’s actually traded, of course).

 

[ShanahanMan]

For everyone celebrating this news, how exactly are we going to find a 1st line center now?

We already were desperate for a center, this just now makes having a competent team completely out of reach being multiple centers away. We have no choice now but to tear down and rebuild.

 

[SirloinUB]

You guys likely don't want to hear from outside fans, but I've been there with Eichel, and it f***ing sucks.

Good luck.

Stings like a bitch but empathy from a Sabres fan is meaningful

 

[SirloinUB]

Thank you Larkin for all those years,. Wish you win cup, or 2. Hopefully we get Couple first and prospect for him.

a late 1st and an okay prospect is a major setback on the team building front.

 

[The Zermanator]

If I’m Yzerman I’m telling Larkin if he wants out so bad he needs to voluntarily relax the NTC to give some flexibility.

If not, Larkin can stay. And if he wants to mope and sandbag in the Winged Wheel because he doesn’t get his way, he can become a pariah in his home town.

 

[91Retired]

normally I would just call click bait but it is Elliotte Friedman

 

[lhsgolf19]

normally I would just call click bait but it is Elliotte Friedman

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

Super glad we traded our 1st for a 34 year old

Hopefully this means we can lean into rebuild 2.0. Because that is the best path to real contention.

I deserve a hand written apology from a lot of people on here!

 

[Gabrielor]

Stings like a bitch but empathy from a Sabres fan is meaningful

Whatever you do next, don't trade him to Vegas.

 

[wingsfannnn9191]

Lmaooooo heard it in the car I couldn’t believe it fans were already bitching about having to trade hage for Larkin in trade scenarios

Guess what I said about trading Larkin 3 yrs ago and naming seider C finally gonna happen despite a lot of ppl bitching here at the time hahah

Tell you what he’s not dictating shit if I’m Yzerman after the crap he’s pulled and bitched about making no trades … we’re not pulling a debrincat for him … Robert Thomas demands were high so ours should be as well if not we make him suffer for two years

McTavish + McQueen +??
Make some moves and we trade for Robert Thomas?

What’s the plan ? Cause if we’re trading him for young assets sorry guys debrincat is a goner and so is faulk

 

[RedHawkDown]

For everyone celebrating this news, how exactly are we going to find a 1st line center now?

The biggest problem on this team is the loser chicken shit mopey give up mentality and Dylan Larkin is the cheerleader of that mentality. I am so happy he is leaving.

 

[Claypool]

For everyone celebrating this news, how exactly are we going to find a 1st line center now?

They tank and draft one. Larkin is a budget 1st line center anyway. There was never any hope of winning with him as the top center.

 

[Gabrielor]

You're right... we don't want to hear it from outside fans.

Also... Eichel left Buffalo because the Sabres and him fundamentally disagreed about a medical procedure that would impact his career. Not because they sucked. This is not that situation.

It's your space, your thread, but sorry, that isn't true. Eichel asked out 9 months BEFORE the injury. He even said so himself in an EF interview. His side of the story just became gospel.

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

Larkin to SJ for number 2.

 

[SirloinUB]

I deserve a hand written apology from a lot of people on here!

I spent months begging this team to not spend a 1st + on Faulk, Trocheck etc

 

[lhsgolf19]

Larkin to SJ for number 2.

They aren’t trading him for just a draft pick no way in hell

 

[ShanahanMan]

Larkin to SJ for number 2.

They would laugh

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Well...bye.

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

I argued with you guys for years to never give this idiot the C!!!!! He blamed Yzerman last summer. We should have traded this idiot years ago!!!

 

[jaster]

If I’m Yzerman I’m telling Larkin if he wants out so bad he needs to voluntarily relax the NTC to give some flexibility.

If not, Larkin can stay. And if he wants to mope and sandbag in the Winged Wheel because he doesn’t get his way, he can become a pariah in his home town.

This is basically it, imo. Larkin and Yzerman are going to have to work together to get them both what they want. Larkin isn't going to accept a trade to just anywhere, and Yzerman sure as shit isn't going to be bullied. If they can't successfully thread that needle, Larkin will be back in the winged wheel next season for some major awkwardness.

 

[wings95]

Yup. Just don't see why he would stick around for his last couple kicks at the can.

We shall see. Maybe he wants to see what Stevie Y does

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

I guess Larkin will not be attending the roast of Chris Osgood I keep hearing about on the Winged Wheel Podcast...

 

[wingsfannnn9191]

With his NTC we are going to get caved on this trade. f***

f*** him . I’d make him rot for two seasons

 

[Heaton]

Super glad we traded our 1st for a 34 year old

Hopefully this means we can lean into rebuild 2.0. Because that is the best path to real contention.

Bro. This is crazy. I'm quoting you because I can't believe how the cascading effect of trading that 1st for Faulk has butterfly effected it's way to Larkin asking out. I must be really dumb because it's completely mindboggling. How do you trade a 1st, then two months later your captain wants out. I have no clue what Yzerman does here, but he does have a track record of situations like these when he was forced to trade Marty St. Louis out of Tampa when St. Louis only wanted to go to the Rangers, and that worked out for Tampa.

I'm flabbergasted because all of the discourse around Larkin seemed so farfetched to me, so I apologize to everyone who believed this was an actual possibility!

 

[BHuddy]

You guys do realize that its coming from the Mel Kiper of the NFL, and has no quotes to back his claim. Another piss poor troll job by Elliot. Larkin isnt going anywhere, LOL, nor did he request a trade.