Red Wings' Dylan Larkin scores OT winner vs. Senators in first game since Olympic heroics

Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News on Feb 26, 2026

Published in Hockey

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The party isn't ending for Dylan Larkin.

The Red Wings' captain and Team USA gold-medal winner scored his 28th goal — and second goal of Thursday's game — in overtime, giving the Wings a 2-1 victory over host Ottawa.

Larkin won a faceoff, got the puck to Lucas Raymond on the wing, and Raymond lofted a feeder pass to Larkin who won the race to the puck, got in alone, and slid a backhander through Ottawa goalie Linus Ullmark at 1 minute, 50 seconds of overtime.

The goal was Larkin's 13th overtime goal, passing Sergei Fedorov as the Red Wings' all-time leader.

The Wings (34-19-6) moved back into the top three of the Atlantic Division thanks mainly to goaltender John Gibson, who stopped 26 shots. Gibson held down the fort early as the Wings found their skating legs in their first game back from the Olympic break.

Larkin (power play) and Ottawa's Brady Tkachuk (power play) — two Team USA teammates the last several weeks — traded goals through two periods.

Larkin's 27th goal tied the game 1-1 early in the second period. Larkin won the faceoff, and the puck squirted to Mortiz Seider at the point. Seider found Raymond down low, and Raymond fed Larkin for a quick snapshot near the hashmarks at 5:24.

Ottawa lost Tkachuk for 10 minutes later for a misconduct penalty later in the second period. Tkachuk was stood up by Simon Edvinsson — who returned to the lineup after missing seven games with a knee injury — Tkachuk dropping to the ice and cutting himself with his own stick. Ottawa's Dylan Cozens fought Edvinsson immediately, but then when Edvinsson was in the penalty box, Tkachuk continued to chirp Edvinsson to the point of earning the misconduct.

Tkachuk opened the game's scoring with his 15th goal in the first period. On the power play, the puck deflected to Tkachuk in the slot where he wristed a shot past Gibson for his 15th goal at 18:44.