{"id":490714,"date":"2026-03-07T06:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490714\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:42:23","slug":"larkin-injured-late-against-panthers-mclellan-thinks-not-long-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490714\/","title":{"rendered":"Larkin Injured Late Against Panthers, McLellan thinks “Not long term”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Wings center Dylan Larkin<\/a> went down late in the team\u2019s March 6 game against the Florida Panthers in what appeared to be a non-contact injury in the third period.<\/p>\n

Entering the zone on a breakaway chance Larkin stopped awkwardly as he was attempting to get his feet set on a shot. The 29-year old\u2019s leg appeared to have caught itself underneath him and he fell to the ground in the Florida zone, staying there for several moments.<\/p>\n

The Red Wings captain was able to get off-ice on his own power shortly after, disappearing into the locker room with about nine minutes left in the game.\u00a0 However, Larkin did not return to the bench.<\/p>\n

The Red Wings, already down 2-1, were unable to rally and deflated after a momentum building second period. The Panthers added an empty-netter to make it a 3-1 loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be long term, but he needs to be looked at.\u201d Said McLellan.<\/p>\n

Threading the needle<\/p>\n

The Red Wings only added David Perron<\/a> to the forward group at the trade deadline<\/a>, who is already injured. If Larkin\u2019s injury is\u00a0 more serious, Detroit could be left incredibly thin in their top six. For his part, Larkin is third on the team in points with 28 goals and 27 assists for 55 points in his 63 games this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never like to see a guy like that go down.\u201d Said James van Riemsdyk.<\/p>\n

With the home stretch before the playoffs now in full swing, the Red Wings will need to hope the updated news is positive tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Wings center Dylan Larkin went down late in the team\u2019s March 6 game against the Florida Panthers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,595,58,5,25359,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-490714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-dylan-larkin","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-injury-news","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-red-wings","17":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116186536122957829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490714","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=490714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}