19 And Life To Go

Dylan Larkin was still 43 days from being born the night Claude Lemieux shattered Kris Draper's face in Denver. Advanced math skills tell me that means he was 9 months old when Darren McCarty dragged the same Lemieux across the Joe Louis Arena ice, landed a knee to his head then pounded him to a pleasant bloody pulp along the boards, just a few feet beneath Draper who was watching from the bench.

Larkin said last night it's the first memory he has as a Red Wing fan.

That's not true. He didn't say that and very few people remember their time spent as drooling, swaddled, adorable little babies.

Larkin was 6 or something when Hank Zetterberg joined the Wings and now he's playing on his wing. He…