The questions everybody asks at the rink, answered straight — no spin, folks, just the facts as they stand. This page carries the homepage’s original four questions, plus the three that keep coming up since the suspension landed.
Yes. On October 29, 2026, the Detroit Red Wings suspended Larkin without pay after he informed the team he would no longer play while awaiting a trade. The suspension runs until a trade is worked out, and he forfeits $41,237.11 for each day of it — which is why the counter on The Meter page is finally running, folks.
Based on his $8,000,000 base salary over a 194-day season, about $41,237.11 per day — roughly 48 cents per second, ticking away like an old gas pump on the highway up north.
A Detroit one. This is a team / front-office suspension — announced by interim GM Shawn Horcoff on October 29, 2026, after Larkin told the club on October 28 that he would no longer play while awaiting a trade. It is not a league suspension. His agent, Pat Brisson, put his client’s side plainly: “Dylan’s had enough.” The suspension is indefinite — it runs until a trade is worked out.
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The full story — the original three, and the seven added in October — is on The Getaway List page.
According to reporting, he asked the Detroit Red Wings for a trade in 2026 and was stripped of the captaincy; in his own reported words, he asked for a trade as the captain and said actions have consequences. And around here, folks, consequences have a way of adding up.
When the suspension ends — the day he’s traded, or the day Detroit puts him back on the ice. A completed trade ends the suspension, and the meter stops with it. Until then, Detroit has said it is prepared to wait for the right deal — and if Larkin is traded, what happens next on this site is a fresh call, not an automatic new counter.
No. Being scratched for trade reasons doesn’t forfeit a dime, and vanishing from the roster page didn’t start anything either. Only a team suspension without pay — Detroit sitting him and docking his pay — starts the meter. That is exactly where things stood on October 29, 2026, and it’s why the counter runs from that evening, Detroit time.