{"id":537125,"date":"2026-04-02T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:38:24","slug":"the-daily-tralmaks-deserves-nhl-shot-how-hurt-is-larkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537125\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily: Tralmaks Deserves NHL Shot; How Hurt is Larkin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eduards Tralmaks scored his 23rd and 24th goals of the season in the Grand Rapids Griffins\u2019 5-0 win against the Rockford IceHogs Wednesday night. Michael Brandsegg-Nygard had a goal and an assist. John Leonard picked up a point to give him 30 goals and 17 assists for 47 points.<\/p>\n<p>With the offensive struggles the Red Wing are enduring, wouldn\u2019t it make sense to give one or two of these players a chance to show what he can do? What if your put Tralmaks with Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond to see what he can do? Or, maybe put Leonard with Larkin and Raymond?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, perhaps probably, we will find out that their skills won\u2019t translate in the NHL game. But we won\u2019t know for sure unless we see those players up playing with elite players. But what would it cost the Red Wings to give them a shot? What do the Red Wings have to lose? According to Bob Duff\u2019s story today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/its-simple-really-red-wings-just-cant-score-mclellan-appleton\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/its-simple-really-red-wings-just-cant-score-mclellan-appleton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Wings offense is averaging 2.37 goals per game<\/a> for the past 23 games.<\/p>\n<p>Tralmaks already has multiple European offers and likely will return there next season if he doesn\u2019t receive an NHL look.<\/p>\n<p>Red Wings In Case You Missed It<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit <a href=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/red-wings-multiple-problems-playoff-struggles-scoring-woes\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/red-wings-multiple-problems-playoff-struggles-scoring-woes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Wings are not suffering from bad luck. <\/a>They are struggling because they are not playing at the level their opponents are reaching. <\/p>\n<p>Red Wings Extra<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s clear captain Dylan Larkin is playing through an injury. What\u2019s always true in sports is when you return to the lineup isn\u2019t when you return to being the player you were before the injury.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Detroit coach Todd McLellan said about Larkin\u2019s play after Detroit\u2019s last game:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive him credit for slugging through it, and it\u2019s clear he\u2019s not 100% the way he\u2019s skating yet,\u201d McLellan said. \u201cThere\u2019s some situations that he has to play better. If you\u2019re going to put the gear on, you have to be real good and positionally sound. So we expect that from him. We\u2019ll have to manage him a little bit with situations and minutes, but when he is out there, we have to expect the best from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hockey Now Digest<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia: Tyson Foerster is returning from the injured list for Thursday\u2019s game vs. the Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh:  Dan Kingerski wonders whether we are seeing the last games of Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang playing together. They\u2019ve been together for two decades. <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/penguins-news-rookies-demoted-rutger-mcgroarty-caleb-jones-done-for-year\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/penguins-news-rookies-demoted-rutger-mcgroarty-caleb-jones-done-for-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eduards Tralmaks scored his 23rd and 24th goals of the season in the Grand Rapids Griffins\u2019 5-0 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,1546,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-537125","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-grand-rapids-griffins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-red-wings","15":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537125","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=537125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}