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The Minnesota Wild are apparently one of the three teams Dylan Larkin would welcome a trade to.
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The Detroit Red Wings center has requested out, and it’s been indicated that he’d like to end up with the Wild, or the Vegas Golden Knights, or the Florida Panthers.
All three of those teams are perennial contenders, although the Panthers missed the playoffs this season.
The Golden Knights are still alive in the Stanley Cup Final, but the Wild are a team with some firepower that could really use one more big name, like Larkin.
To trade for Larkin wouldn’t be cheap, though. He’s a gold medal-winning center, Detroit’s captain and still pretty much in his prime.
Daily Faceoff’s Anthony Di Marco speculated in a new article that the Wild would have to deal away Charlie Stramel, Danila Yurov and a 2027 first-round pick to get Larkin from the Red Wings.
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“Dangling young centers Stramel and Yurov could get a conversation going,” Di Marco writes.
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The analyst isn’t quite sure the deal would be enough, but he also thinks it’s about the best Minnesota can do.
“The Red Wings need to (ideally) bring back NHL-ready bodies down the middle,” Di Marco writes. “Yes, the Wings have Nate Danielson in the pipeline, but the likes of J.T. Compher and Andrew Copp won’t cut it as the top-two guys down the middle at the NHL level in the meantime. Yurov has already established himself as a middle-six pivot with the upside to grow to be more; Stramel’s stock has never been higher, coming off a season where he scored 44 points in 37 games for Michigan State.”
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Di Marco concludes by noting that without a first-round pick in the deal, it would have no chance. With the pick, the Red Wings will pay attention.
Detroit may hope to get a bidding war that involves more than three teams, but for the moment, this appears to be the world that Larkin, who has a no-movement clause in his contract, has set up for the Red Wings.
