{"id":596872,"date":"2026-06-12T03:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/596872\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:27:59","slug":"why-player-movement-is-here-to-stay-in-all-levels-of-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/596872\/","title":{"rendered":"Why player movement is here to stay in all levels of hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo illustration of Dylan Larkin and Carter Meyer. (Jeanine Leech\/Getty; Rena Laverty\/USA Hockey) <\/p>\n

Late last week, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman put out a bombshell report<\/a> that Dylan Larkin, the Detroit Red Wings’ star captain, had requested a trade. After wrapping up Year 3 of an eight-year deal worth $69.60 million and with only five playoff games to his name, the Michigan native wanted out.<\/p>\n

My first thought: What would it take for the Bruins to deal for him? As the host of a Bruins podcast, I pray\u00a0for stories like this in the dog days of June, as this would surely take up a whole lot of airtime this summer. That was until it came out that he would only accept a trade to three places, none of which are Boston.<\/p>\n

Silly me.<\/p>\n

But then I thought about it a little longer. Aside from the initial shock of the push notification on your iPhone, once the dust settles, why is anyone surprised that anyone would request to be moved \u2014 in the NHL or at any level?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo illustration of Dylan Larkin and Carter Meyer. (Jeanine Leech\/Getty; Rena Laverty\/USA Hockey) Late last week, Sportsnet’s Elliotte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[42998,2060,15386,3393,599,93,5137,595,5,13090,29894,2064,2065,4,13377,3358,5138,2694,3485,66376],"class_list":["post-596872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-red-wings","tag-boston-junior-eagles","tag-boys-prep-hockey","tag-carter-meyer","tag-chl","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroitredwings","tag-dylan-larkin","tag-hockey","tag-mid-fairfield","tag-neponset-valley-river-rats","tag-nepsac-hockey","tag-new-england-prep-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-qmjhl-draft","tag-red-wings","tag-redwings","tag-ushl","tag-ushl-draft","tag-yale-junior-bulldogs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116735017224799574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596872","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=596872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}