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Quick Hits: The Dylan Larkin Growing Pains Edition

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Dylan Larkin struggled this year after a strong rookie season. This article looks at how he plans to bounce back, which I feel is very likely.

"I think the league definitely adjusted to my game and defenders really respected the speed that I had," Larkin said. "I felt a lot that I was just skating into the defensemen who had already backed up and then they would just seal me off and then I couldn't make a play. I just said that I'm going to have to adapt to how they adapted to me.

"It was a hard learning curve but once I figured out what I needed to do, I figured out that in a league like the NHL, you can never stop evolving and you can never stop improving on your game.