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4 nations is hungry for playoffs

4 nations is hungry for playoffs

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  • Larkin and his teammate Lucas Raymond, who also participated in the tournament, returned to the Red Wings and recorded significant minutes in their first game.
  • Coach Todd McLellan praised Larkin’s leadership and acknowledged that the team will depend largely on it in the final stretch of the season.

Dylan Larkin scored, established a goal and hastened to defend a teammate.

Is what the Detroit Red Wings We have come to wait for their captain, and now they get a version that has been turbocked by the emotion of playing on a huge stage, one that has Larkin hunger even more to put the wings in the center of attention to play for a championship.

He The wings had to settle for a point In his first game of the confrontation break of the 4 nations, but Larkin, who only two days before the tournament had finished playing at the end, won 3-2 by Canada for the United States of Larkin, seemed ready to carry his mark of stars becomes the stretching career.

“It was a great experience,” he said. “The games were very intense and very fun. It was a disappointing ending for us, but it is definitely a great motivator to return and push our team to reach the playoffs.”

Larkin returned to the Wings that came out of a dominant performance in the tournament, highlighted by scoring the winning goalkeeper in a round-robin game against Canada in Bell Center in Montreal. There were bigger names in the American team, such as Auston Matthews and the Tkachuk brothers (Matthew and Brady), but Larkin notified that he belonged.

“You always wonder, or at least I think you always wonder, where you fit,” said Wings coach Todd McLellan. “You know where it fits in your own team and if you sign with another person or change, discover where you are sitting on the bus with that team. But, where do you sit around the world? One of the best in the world, in my opinion Anyway, and now knows. “

The game: Detroit Red Wings Atonitos with 3 goals without response in 4-3 defeats from OT against Minnesota Wild

From Larkin’s perspective, discovering where he fit it was not difficult.

“I think I stayed with who I am,” he said. “I was really trying to do everything possible to help the team, whether it is bringing energy, if I was trying to be a voice in the room. Be there for the boys. Whatever it is, I just tried to do it. And I was happy to do it.

Larkin’s comments echoed the facts by Lucas Raymond, whose tournament ended when Sweden could not advance in the Redondo game. Raymond also had a goal and assistance in The 4-3 defeat in extra time from Saturday against Minnesota Wild. Both played about 20 minutes.

“We ask many of them,” said McLellan. “They had an impact on the game, which is a good sign. I am not sure where their gas tanks are. Maybe because the alls played two nights, perhaps had better legs than to reason. But they are going to play a lot of hockey And we will find time to get the rest they need.

“We are riding the horse at this time and we are whipping it. So it will be from now on to the end.”

There was a sequence in the third period during the fourth power play of the Wings when Seider could not control the album and ended up chasing Joel Erikson Ek, whose escape ended when he stopped after hitting Cam Talbot. Larkin hastened to enter and ended with a decision. Making Larkin feel in the penalty box is not ideal, but the wings will take the general message it sends.

“He is the captain,” McLelan said. “We lose our captain in that situation, would we have it on the ice? Yes. But you are showing many leadership skills taking care of the team. They are heads or queues.”

Contact Helene St. James in [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @Helenestjames. Read more about the Detroit Red Wings and register for our Wings Red Bulletin.

His latest book, “The franchise: Detroit Red WingsA cured story of the red wings, “was launched in October 2024. His books,” On the clock: behind the scene with Detroit’s red wings in the NHL Draft “and” The Big 50: The Men and Moments which caused Detroit Red Wings ”to be available in Amazon, Barnes & Noble and triumph books. Custom copies available through your email.

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