NHL Buzz: Larkin playing for Red Wings against Lightning

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• "He's feeling better, but we just felt, why mix in a couple of plane rides when not necessary," Cassidy said.
• "It's just a little maintenance for him.
• "It should give us a big lift," Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said.
• He's second on the Avalanche with 22 points (five goals, 17 assists in 19 games) behind Mikko Rantanen (25 points; 12 goals, 13 assists in 23 games).
• "When Nate gets into scoring areas, he draws attention to himself and he either winds up with a good scoring chance or his linemates do, and the top players tend to finish off more of their scoring chances than other guys," Bednar said.
• "There's no specific setback," Bednar said.
• Until I hear from our medical staff or from Cale himself that he's good and ready to play or gearing up to play our next game, I don't know when that's going to be.
• The forward has missed three games with an upper-body injury.
• "He got hit and banged up a little bit the first game in Winnipeg," Canucks general manager Jim Benning said March 5.
• Dylan Larkin is playing against the Tampa Bay Lightning after the forward and red Wings captain missed four games with an upper-body injury.
• "I felt pretty good," Larkin said after practicing Sunday
• The forward missed his 18th game because of an upper-body injury
• "It's just been a longer process than what we realized and that happens sometimes with injuries," Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said
• "We'll take him, just so we can keep skating him," coach Jeremy Colliton said
• "A lot of it is just time," Colliton said
• He's definitely moving through here and it's a positive for everyone."

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