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For those in the Detroit Red Wings' locker room who have history with Tyler Bertuzzi, this weekend will undeniably be a strange one.
"Weird, really weird," is how Dylan Larkin described the anticipation as the Wings face a home-and-home series with the Boston Bruins, who acquired Bertuzzi March 2, the day before the trade deadline. Larkin took it hard at the time, losing a close friend and longtime teammate, but as the days have passed, emotions have settled.
"I've texted with him a little bit," Larkin said Thursday. "He said it’s cool playing on a good team. It’s a good team, good players. He’s going to do really well and going to go on a run and I’m really happy for him in that way.
"It’s going to be a tough game but I am excited to see how we stack up against these guys. It’s been emotional, it’s been kind of hard to see the dream of making the playoffs fade away, but we’ve kind of gotten over that and now we hit the reset button a little bit. We are still in it. You never know what can happen."
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The trade came the day after Larkin signed an eight-year extension. He and Bertuzzi were the Wings' two most prominent pending unrestricted free agents, but while general manager Steve Yzerman found common ground with Larkin's camp, there was too wide a chasm between the Wings and Bertuzzi, who wanted an eight-year deal. Given his injury history (major back surgery in 2021, two hand surgeries this season), the Wings balked at that. So, Yzerman did what made sense from a hockey operations standpoint and traded Bertuzzi, gaining a protected 2024 first-round pick (if it's in the top 10, it transfers to 2025) and a fourth-round pick in 2025.
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"It’s going to be a weird," Zadina said. "Since I got here, I have been with Tyler on the team and hew as a huge part of this organization. I was looking up to him when I got here, my first season, so it was huge for me to see him play here and get better watching him. It’s going to be special to play against him, for sure, and hopefully he will take it easy on us."
The Bruins haven't taken it easy on anyone — they defeated the Wings, 5-1, back in October, part of a rampage that has the Bruins atop the NHL standings and pushing to surpass the record-setting 62-victory mark set by the 1995-96 Wings (62-13-7) and tied in 2018-19 by the Tampa Bay Lightning (62-16-4). Wings coach Derek Lalonde was an assistant with the Lightning at that time.
Next up: Bruins
Matchup: Red Wings (29-26-9) at Boston (49-8-5).
Faceoff: 1 p.m. Saturday; TD Garden, Boston.
TV/radio: ABC; WXYT-FM (97.1).
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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