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Bob McKenzie was on Toronto’s TSN 1050 on Wednesday evening.

As part of a larger conversation on the Detroit Red Wings:

“They’ve got so many good young players. Dylan Larkin is going to be a star. I mean, Petr Mrazek has a chance to – and I say this, I’ve got to be careful how I say this – you see what Carey Price is doing for the Montreal Canadiens. I think there will be a point in time where Petr Mrazek might do the same sort of thing in terms of the athletic ability to dominate his position, when he gets older and more experienced, as what Price has been doing… but there hasn’t been enough consistency, and I think that’s something they’re working on.”

On Dylan Larkin, and how unusual it is to see the Red Wings put a player this young into the lineup:

“It gives you some idea of how good they think Larkin is. They won’t come out and say it publicly, but they think he’s got a chance to be a special player. Somebody who really has unbelievable leadership qualities.

“The unspoken thing in Detroit is that he might – and I say might because it’s too big a mantle to throw on anybody – but maybe he becomes Detroit’s Jonathan Toews. A guy who has character and intangibles to go with the tangibles, which is tremendous speed, tremendous skill. Just sort of an attitude and presence about him. I think that’s the first thing that a lot of veteran Red Wings noticed, was that this teenage kid is unlike any other teenage kid they’ve had come in Detroit for a long, long time.

“He’s got that special something and it’s hard sometimes to put into words what that special something is, but you know when someone’s got it. The Blackhawks knew when Toews came up that he had it, and the feeling in Detroit is that Larkin is cut from the same sort of cloth.”

Source: TSN 1050/ Transcript: Nichols