Larkin\u2019s play also helped the U.S. reach the semifinals Friday against Slovakia (3 p.m., NBC, Peacock).<\/a> The Detroit captain scored his team\u2019s lone regulation goal vs. Sweden when he tipped in a shot by Jack Hughes in the second period. Larkin won the offensive-zone face-off to Quinn Hughes, who delivered the puck to his brother before Larkin\u2019s tip.<\/p>\n\u201cI think I just follow from what a big heart Lark says, and he always tells me to pay it forward, and I think that\u2019s a great message,\u201d Hughes said.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings were interested in acquiring Hughes earlier this season but his reluctance to commit to a contract extension prompted them to pass. The Minnesota Wild acquired Hughes on Dec. 12 for Marco Rossi, Zeev Buium, Liam Ohgren and a first-round pick in 2026.<\/p>\n
If Hughes, who has one more year remaining on his contract, doesn\u2019t re-sign with the Wild, the Red Wings could have yet another opportunity to acquire him, either by the 2027 trade deadline or in free agency in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Quinn Hughes scored in overtime Wednesday to lift the United States past Sweden 2-1 in an Olympic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464175,"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":{"0":"post-464174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","9":"tag-2026-winter-olympic-games","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-red-wings","12":"tag-detroitredwings","13":"tag-events","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-milan-cortina-olympics","16":"tag-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-olympic-games","19":"tag-olympics","20":"tag-olympics-2026","21":"tag-red-wings","22":"tag-redwings","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-winter-games","25":"tag-winter-olympic-games","26":"tag-winter-olympics-2026","27":"tag-xxv-olympiad"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116100846350326626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464174","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=464174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}