{"id":594198,"date":"2026-06-08T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/594198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:42:29","slug":"analysis-surprise-winnipeg-jets-not-part-of-early-entry-list-for-dylan-larkin-derby-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/594198\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Surprise \u2014 Winnipeg Jets not part of early entry list for Dylan Larkin derby &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reports of Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin wanting out of Detroit created a stir around the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/nhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NHL<\/a> late last week.<\/p>\n<p>An update Monday has been a bit of a \u201cbuzzkill\u201d \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n<p>The bombshell that dropped last Thursday afternoon ahead of an epic Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final in Raleigh had every fan base \u2014 with the exception of Detroit, of course \u2014 salivating over the idea of the speedy centre winding up in their team\u2019s jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jets Nation was right there in the land of dreaming about \u201cwhat if\u201d Winnipeg somehow wound up being that team who cashed in on the Dylan Larkin sweepstakes.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>Then came a report from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press that Larkin\u2019s wish list is narrowed down to Florida, Vegas and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>None are a surprise, all are Stanley Cup Contenders. But an ultra restricted market doesn\u2019t give Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman much to work with to receive fair compensation for an established 30-goal scorer and 70-point producer over the past five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Unless of course, one of the Panthers, Golden Knights or Wild surprise everyone and submit an offer Yzerman can\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s remember: to this point, there has been no confirmation from any of the main participants, so there\u2019s still time for Larkin\u2019s list to be expanded \u2014 as it probably will need to be if the player and his agent Pat Brisson are serious about getting a deal done.<\/p>\n<p>A summer of \u201cmassive change\u201d in the National Hockey League has been in the forecast for a while.<\/p>\n<p>And Larkin\u2019s trade request could still ignite the kind of chaos one would expect almost every NHL GM and market to desperately want to be a part of.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Reports of Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin wanting out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,43,77,18,387,5288],"class_list":["post-594198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg-jets","tag-hockey","tag-jets","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-winnipeg-sports","tag-winnipegjets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116715254403206777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594198","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=594198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}