Quinn Hughes scored in overtime to lift the U.S. 2-1, setting up Friday\u2019s semifinal matchup with Slovakia (3:10 p.m., NBC, Peacock).<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe all know how good of a player Razor is, produces at a really good clip, and he did so over there,\u201d Patrick Kane said. \u201cAnd it seems like since I\u2019ve been watching, Larks has been one of the best players on the U.S. Not too surprising to see, but they\u2019re representing the Red Wings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond finished with nine points (goal, eight assists), tied for second in scoring behind Connor McDavid of Canada (11 points), which meets Finland in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the 4 Nations, he was good, but he really excelled at the Olympics and the world is watching,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cBut as (his profile) grows worldwide, it becomes responsibility. And you mentioned the playoffs, driving a team as deep as possible, that falls on all our shoulders. But Lucas will be a primary figure when it comes to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Said James van Riemsdyk: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s underrated, but I think people are starting to see more and more how good of a player he is and doing it on that stage is an impressive thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kane and van Riemsdyk played with Larkin on World Championship teams and were aware of his compete level before they joined the Red Wings.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see how badly he wanted to win playing for the U.S.,\u201d Kane said. \u201cWe obviously get the chance to see it here every day, just how badly he wants to win here in Detroit, for the city of Detroit, for his teammates, for the organization. You couldn\u2019t ask for a better representative of an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Riemsdyk spoke of the respect that Larkin has long commanded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had some older guys, but you could tell he\u2019s kind of like the heartbeat of that age group and the surrounding age groups,\u201d van Riemsdyk said. \u201cI feel like a lot of them, especially some of the younger ones, now look at him like a big brother. He\u2019s definitely the guy that you wanted to foxhole with you when you\u2019re going to play some important games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2013 Many of the Detroit Red Wings\u2019 core players haven\u2019t experienced a lot of intense, pressure-packed games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[46305,26402,599,93,5137,2675,5,15348,55018,4,5966,2602,46263,3358,5138,43,49619,25639,31286,55019],"class_list":["post-464006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-red-wings","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympic-games","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroitredwings","tag-events","tag-hockey","tag-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2026","tag-red-wings","tag-redwings","tag-sports","tag-winter-games","tag-winter-olympic-games","tag-winter-olympics-2026","tag-xxv-olympiad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116100087425808824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}