HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The most disgusting day in Red Wings history. No wings captain has ever requested a trade in team history.

[JerkNazi]

Yzerman should have dumped Dboss with the rest of Holland’s junk years ago, torn it even further to the studs and moved on.

 

[jkutswings]

If the captain quits, what does that tell everyone else?

It tells free agents the room is broken. It tells them the plan isn’t convincing. It tells them the organization sold hope for years and still couldn’t build a team worth believing in. That is catastrophic optics for a franchise already fighting to regain credibility.

This makes the entire organization look weak, unserious, and unstable.

If your captain quits, your rebuild failed on a deeper level than just the standings.

Yup. Because maybe all of that is true.

As far as I'm concerned, Yzerman has about 90 days to prove he shouldn't be fired. Either navigate these very difficult circumstances (that he put himself in) by making a very successful Larkin trade, followed up by additional good moves to right the ship, or don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

[GMR]

Thursday June 4th 2026. The day Larkin turned his back on Detroit. He quit!

Almost 30 years since Hogan legdropped Randy Savage and turned his back on WCW!

 

[Winger98]

Yzerman should have dumped Dboss with the rest of Holland’s junk years ago, torn it even further to the studs and moved on.

Re-signing Larkin was probably the defining moment of the rebuild.

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Seeing a lot of Larkin is the guy that stirs the drink over there. Just shows not many watch the Wings. It's been Mo since he stepped onto the ice we just have had it lucky in not seeing the defense without him.

Also keeping bringing up him being hurt but his play declined in December well before that, and then he breaks out in the Olympics. Felt odd.

If this was in the works for a long time then maybe it's for the best, why would you want a mopey captain looking for greener pastures during a playoff push.