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Chapter 1: What recent news has emerged regarding Dylan Larkin's trade request?
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Chapter 2: What factors contributed to the friction between Larkin and Eisenman?
And let's go to the Able Auctions hotline now. Welcome in our next guest. It is Ryan Hanna, host of the Winged Wheel podcast. You can follow him on Twitter as well, at Ryan Hanna, WWP. Ryan, thanks for making some time for us here at Canucks Central. How are you doing today, man?
Oh, you know, I'm doing all right today. It's been a little bit of a whirlwind the last four days, but I appreciate you guys having me on.
Yeah, well, thanks for making some time. And I'm sure it has been a whirlwind because anytime you hear a captain request a trade, and we've lived through it here in Vancouver with Quinn Hughes, we know what happens.
Chapter 3: How has the Red Wings' performance impacted Larkin's trade request?
But number one, for somebody who covers a team as closely as you do, was it a shock to hear that trade request come out and become public?
Yeah, I'm going to level with you guys. It was a big shock. And I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything that goes on with the Red Wings. Very obviously not everything. But generally when big stuff like this happens, you hear the rumblings here and there. It might sound like a ridiculous rumor, but you wonder if it could happen. But with this one, it dropped and I was pretty floored.
I did look back at some conversations in retrospect and kind of shake my head and go, I should have seen it coming, but
Chapter 4: What implications does Larkin's trade request have for the Red Wings' future?
I don't know. This is monumental no matter which way you shake it or whether you thought it could happen.
We saw the end of season presser years ago where he mentioned making trades at the deadline. Is this an ongoing friction that maybe escalated beyond the initial perception?
Yeah, that's 100% what it is. There's a bunch of variables that led to this, but first and foremost, Eisenman and Larkin have not gotten along for some time now. I think the first big inflection point was his contract negotiation. Eisenman has a reputation as a grinder with the big contracts, and that came through with Dylan Larkin. I mean, he signed late in the game.
Chapter 5: Why is the upcoming draft considered crucial for the Canucks?
We were nervous. There wasn't a reason to believe at the time that Dylan was going to walk, but it wasn't exactly like locking up your captain, your number one center on July 1st, the first day he's eligible for an extension. That went down to the wire there. So that left a sour taste in Dylan's mouth.
And then there was obviously the very public, we'll call it a spat, but the public statements that Lorcan put out and then Eisenman and his end-of-season presser that came after that. If folks remember, he had a prepared statement and his voice was almost trembling when you're really mad about something. And that's not really how Eisenman carries himself in the pressers.
So you can tell they were both pretty ticked and then
this was brewing for a while but i think the the straw that broke the camel's back was other than not making the playoffs was larkin tasted success with his i mean we're cosmically linked you guys and i quinn hughes and his buddies on team usa and i mean as a canadian redwoods fan i i rue the day nathan mckinnon never missed that net because it's just caused a torrent of pain for for us but yeah larkin tasted success and he you know that i think there's a lot of
promotion from his Team USA buddies to say, hey, let's do this.
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Chapter 6: What makes this draft unique in Canucks history?
And I think that was enough for Dylan.
Yeah, and you know, that whole point about the discord to some extent between Iserman and Larkin has kind of been there, you know, simmering under the surface the last little while. If the Wings were more competitive, would this be an issue, that relationship, you think?
You know, I think the relationship probably wouldn't be like... sunshines and rainbows, but I don't think it would be Dylan Larkin asking for a trade. I think if they had made the playoffs one or two of the last few seasons, had actually converted on opportunities, I don't think we'd be here today.
Where was the inflection point to maybe get this right and be consistently in the playoffs when you look back at, I would say, I guess the last four years? Is there a moment you say, okay, this is when they should have been more ambitious and tried to start trying to get into the playoffs?
That's a really tough question because I think the last few years, Detroit's choked it away. There's no other way to say it.
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Chapter 7: Who are the top prospects the Canucks are considering in the draft?
But if you look at what was available at the deadline and what was available in free agency, it wasn't much. I can sit here, and I have sat here and said, Eisenman needs to have done more or done better. And I still believe that. I think some of his free agency dealings have been counterproductive, and I think there were some missed opportunities in guys they let go or let walk.
One of them is playing the cup final right now, Shane Goss, just as an example. But You can't really pin down too many times where it kind of made sense to start giving up assets to get guys that were available on the market. The only time I was really pushing hard, funny enough, was Quinn Hughes. And even then, it was like they wanted Edmondson.
I actually think the Red Wings were open to the idea, but Eisenman wanted the verbal commitment from Quinn to say like, hey, once you're eligible, are you going to extend?
Chapter 8: How does the trade landscape affect the Canucks' draft strategy?
And Quinn didn't give that to anyone. But he was sharing internally, as I'm sure you guys heard as well, that he was a big fan of Detroit, the idea of going there. And so it stands to reason that he would have extended. You can look back in retrospect in the decision to not make that move before Minnesota jumped in with their big offer. That's even more impactful now, but
I think the Quinn Hughes one is the only one that I think you could really fairly kind of slam the Red Wings for. And even that, you need some 2020 hindsight.
Because the rebuild I think everyone looks at right now, and especially in contrast in the East, is Montreal and how quickly they spun it around. And we had Frank on the show yesterday. He was talking about they were in the final in 2021, and they're back in the conference finals in 2025, like recycling everything. And it's been...
over half a decade for detroit to get back in the playoffs and the thing i look at with montreal is okay they hit on a lot of picks and they had a lottery a lot of lottery luck as well to help all that but it's not as if detroit is like missed and whiffed on picks here like mort cider has been a hit lucas raymond has been a hit simon edmondson has been a hit like where where has been the gap why this hasn't gone as smoothly as we see traditional rebuilds go
I'll give you two sides of it. With the draft picks, you're right. Detroit has hit on a lot of their picks, and I would say the most important ones. Mo Sider was a grand slam. Lucas Raymond, they knocked that one out of the park. On a healthy year, he's competing with Stutzla at that level of production from his draft class.
You have a franchise defenseman and a franchise winger there, and they both play the game the right way. You know, Simon Edmondson, you have another top pairing defenseman. So with those three draft picks, you have a top pair, which when they're playing together, they were statistically among the best in the NHL before Edmondson got himself hurt last year.
And you have Lucas Raymond, who when he's on, he's on. But they really didn't have the lottery luck when they needed it. And it's hard to compete with other teams when they're getting guys like you know, Celebrini, and I know that's a dramatic example, or even Bedard who, like when you don't have those, you don't have the trampoline.
And then if you look at 2022, for example, when Montreal got Slavkovski, who's obviously a great player, Like who did Detroit get? They got Marco Casper. I like Marco Casper. Marco Casper is a fine player. He might still end up being the 2C of the future, but that's been complicated.
And then behind him, there aren't too many confident answers as to who's going to be the second line center of the future. And now they just lost or will lose their first line center. So even though they did great, when you don't have that luck and when you needed it for so many years, that kind of negative effect does compound. Now on the other side of things,
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