The 30-year-old former captain, who requested a trade in June, stopped playing as he waits nearly a month into the season for Detroit to move him.
Dylan Larkin is no longer skating for the Red Wings, and now he is not getting paid for it either. Detroit has suspended the 30-year-old center without pay after he removed himself from the lineup while waiting for a trade he requested back in June.
Coach Todd McLellan confirmed Larkin would sit out against the Blackhawks, with sources describing the move as "trade-related." The sitting-out became a suspension shortly after, as the two sides remain stuck without a deal nearly a month into the season.
Larkin's camp made clear this week that patience has run out. His agent, Pat Brisson, issued a statement explaining Larkin's decision to stop playing while a trade is sorted out, calling it the clearest public explanation yet from Larkin's side on why the former captain pulled himself from the lineup.
Where this goes next depends on whether Detroit can find a trade partner willing to meet its price for a player no longer interested in sticking around. Until then, Larkin remains in roster limbo, suspended and unpaid, as the situation with the Red Wings organization he once captained continues to unravel in public.