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Dylan Larkin Will REGRET Not Putting the Flyers on His Trade List (Reportedly)
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Dylan Larkin reportedly only wants to be traded to Minnesota, Vegas, or Florida:
First of all, it’s so jarring to think about the Detroit Red Wings captain requesting a trade. My brain is rattling around inside of my skull thinking about the insanity of Steve Yzerman, Nicklas Lidstrom, or Henrik Zetterberg asking out. This is the Red Wings we’re talking about here. How far has this franchise fallen? It’s been more than 10 years since they won a playoff series! Incredible.
As you know, the Flyers could use a center. Or two, or three. Larkin is a great one, a two-way, play-driving, top-six guy. Fast skater, good transitional player, penalty killer, all of that. He’s gonna get you 30 goals a season and somewhere between 35-45 assists. He’s 29 years old and has five more years on his contract at $8.7 million, which is what Travis Konecny is making.
What needs to happen is for Danny Briere to get really aggressive here. He needs to simply not accept the list of teams that Larkin has reportedly written down. He needs to hit up Larkin’s agent: “add us to the shortlist, or else.” Then he needs to work back channels to bribe the agent and the player, starting with free tickets to the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony show at the new Stateside Live! this summer. The Flyers need to show Larkin what he’d be missing out on by eschewing South Philly. His shortlist blows anyway. Minnesota? Boring and cold. Florida? Boring and hot. Vegas? Nobody likes Vegas. We all band together in our dislike of the Golden Knights.
But Philadelphia? Philly is a team on the come up. The fans are Flyered Up. We’ve got a lot of momentum and we’re about to turn the corner. We’ve got a new arena coming in a few years. We need players like Dylan Larkin, and Larkin needs the Flyers. Like David Dodge, he’s always been our next center, he just doesn’t know it yet.
Let’s #DoTheDeal, whatever it takes.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com