Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin blamed GM Steve Yzerman and the lack of trade deadline moves for a poor second half.

The Detroit Red Wings went from missing out on the 2024 playoffs via a tiebreaker to being eliminated long before the final game of the 2025 regular season. Dylan Larkin points to the lack of moves at the trade deadline as a reason for that.

Dylan Larkin is not just the Red Wings captain. He is also the team's longest tenured player, the only one left with first hand experience of playoff hockey in Detroit, and he grew up 40 minutes northwest of Little Caesars Arena in Waterford.