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Red Wings make Dylan Larkin’s captaincy official

It’s official.

Dylan Larkin has been named the 37th captain in Detroit Red Wings franchise history. #LGRW pic.twitter.com/l05lknUP6B— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) January 13, 2021

The worst-kept secret in Detroit is finally out and the Red Wings have named Dylan Larkin as the team’s captain going into the 2020-21 season.

Larkin, 24, enters his sixth NHL season as the center on the Wings’ top line and now with a C to bear rather than an A. Larkin follows Henrik Zetterberg, who did a lot to help guide a younger Larkin in his early years in the league and is already off to a fine start in having one hell of a career to try to live up to (especially given that this captaincy was given to him by a man known as THE Captain in Detroit).