Where in the NHL Is Dylan Larkin?
Subject: Dylan Larkin, No. 71
He told the Red Wings he's done playing in Detroit. Sources spotted him in an NHL city, which isn't even on his list.
His trade list: Panthers, Wild, Golden Knights, Stars, Capitals, Hurricanes, Mammoth, Lightning, Devils, Avalanche.
Follow his trail through up to three more cities to the team where he's headed. Ask witnesses at the arena, the hotel and the airport, then pick your flight. You have until Saturday at 9 p.m.
Every hour you spend, he loses $1,718.
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The fine print
2026-27 base salary $8,000,000 ÷ NHL pay days 194 = lost per unpaid day $41,237.11 ÷ 86,400 seconds $0.4773 / sec
That per-day number matches what TSN's Darren Dreger reported. NHL salaries are paid out over the 194 days of the regular season, so a day suspended without pay costs 1/194 of his base salary. The $8.7 million you often see is his cap hit, the contract's average. The meter starts at midnight Eastern on Oct. 29, 2026, the day the Red Wings suspended him, and stops when he's traded or plays again. Ticker prices are rough local prices in US dollars, for Detroit and the cities on his list. Shared links and images show the total at the second you click. An estimate for fun, not an accounting.
Hats off to Robson Fletcher, whose Hellebucks counter for Connor Hellebuyck started all of this. Go see the original.
The game sends him somewhere random on his list every case (and, now and then, back where he was first spotted); it says nothing about where he'll really be traded. Fan-made, not affiliated with Dylan Larkin, the Detroit Red Wings, any NHL team or the NHL.
