Dylan Larkin informed the Detroit Red Wings through agent Pat Brisson last Thursday that he would not play for them again until he is traded, five months after first asking out. Sid Seixeiro, who hosts a sports talk show in Toronto, does not think much of the leverage behind it.
“You are seeing an overrated center who never goes to the playoffs,” Seixeiro said on his show. “In what world do you want that a**hat in your room? He is a loser, he is begging the best organizations in the league to bring him on, no one is willing to do it at a price. This guy is a nobody and he is demanding entry into the best dressing rooms in the league.”
Then came the line that has been doing the rounds since.
“This guy has the IQ of a coffee mug,” Seixeiro said.
He wasn’t finished with the playoff point either.
“Any team that picks up Dylan Larkin will never win the Stanley Cup, you’re barely getting into the playoffs. He can’t spell playoffs, and he is demanding the world to come to him?”
Dylan Larkin this season:
| Category | Total |
|---|---|
| Games | 10 |
| Goals | 2 |
| Points | 6 |
Why is Dylan Larkin not playing?
There are two accounts of that, and they don’t quite match. Larkin’s camp told the club he had given them long enough, and Detroit stopped paying him. Frank Seravalli reported something slightly different, saying the plan was for Larkin to sit out for asset protection purposes until a deal is done, while noting the Larkin camp had applied pressure.
Either way, it is costing him. Sitting out works out at more than $41,000 a day against the eight-year, $69.6 million contract he signed in Detroit.
Seixeiro has form on this particular subject, and it hasn’t always run in the same direction. He spent weeks arguing that the Montreal Canadiens should trade for Larkin as their second-line center, then abandoned the idea entirely after watching Larkin decline to explain his trade request at training camp, calling that press conference cowardly and childish.
The timing of the walkout is what has drawn most of the criticism. Larkin had dressed for 10 of Detroit’s first 12 games and scored the late equalizer in a 4-3 shootout win in Edmonton on Monday before deciding he had waited long enough.
Interim general manager Shawn Horcoff has admitted the ten-team list Larkin submitted makes the job harder, and nothing suggests a deal is close. As Seixeiro put it, the Red Wings should simply refuse.
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