- Moritz Seider says the win over Chicago “meant a little more” after the Larkin suspension
- Todd McLellan says the Red Wings are “moving on” from the Larkin saga
- Read below for what Seider and McLellan said after Detroit’s 4-1 win
Moritz Seider says the Red Wings’ win over Chicago on Thursday “meant a little more,” coming hours after the team suspended Dylan Larkin without pay for refusing to play until he is traded.
Seider was asked about beating the Blackhawks 4-1 on the day Larkin left the team.
“It meant a little more,” Seider said. “I think it came down to that this is our squad and we got a really good group in here.”
Seider also talked about the constant questions surrounding Larkin, who asked for a trade in May and has now been out of the lineup since Thursday morning. He said he hopes the departure “eliminates a little bit of noise.”
“You just get sick and tired of answering the same question over and over again,” Seider said. “I think now it’s good to just put it in the past, turn the page and get really excited for whoever we get, whatever pick we’re going to get.”
Head coach Todd McLellan sounded the same note. He said the Red Wings are “moving on” and that “this has been going on for too long.” McLellan also said “sometimes all this nonsense brings a group together.”
The group looked like one. Viktor Arvidsson scored a hat trick, including an empty-netter, and Lucas Raymond added a power-play goal in the third period to put Detroit up 2-1 on its way to the win. Andrew Copp took Larkin’s spot between Raymond and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, and John Gibson made 18 saves.
Here’s our original post on the suspension from earlier Thursday:
Detroit is now 6-4-3 and has earned a point in eight of its last nine games. General manager Shawn Horcoff said the team will wait as long as necessary to find the right Larkin trade, and Larkin’s 10-team no-trade list is making that harder.
Larkin wore the “C” for six seasons and sits 10th in franchise history with 649 points in 818 games. Fans at Little Caesars Arena sent him off with a chant that can’t be printed here. Whoever takes over the captaincy is the next question in Detroit.
