Dylan Larkin booed by a Detroit crowd, and viewers ask what he did

The short clip of the Red Wings captain hearing it at home turned its comment section into a debate about loyalty, with fans of other teams offering him a new address.

Channel: NHL on ESPN Story of October 8, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 53,586 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (3,350).

Dylan Larkin booed by fans in Detroit 👀

The Short does not explain itself. Its title, "Dylan Larkin booed by fans in Detroit 👀", says who and where and leaves the why to the comments. A little over a day after it went up, the clip had passed 58,000 views. An NHL on ESPN Short usually ends its first day in the low thousands, and the comment section filled close to six times faster than usual.

What makes the sound so jarring is who it is aimed at. Larkin grew up in Waterford, Michigan, was drafted by the Red Wings in 2014 and was named the team's captain in 2021. A home crowd booing its own captain is not something a hockey clip shows every day.

The first thing many viewers ask is simply what he did. Others answer with trade talk, and fans of the Panthers, the Capitals and the Golden Knights drop in to invite him over. Plenty of Detroit voices take his side instead, pointing out that the same crowd cheered when he scored, and one long reply argues that the team's first win of the season came with him on the ice. A few are more struck by the empty seats around the boos than by the boos themselves.

The clip stood out on a quieter day for the channel as a whole. Its most watched full highlights package, the Rangers' win over the Islanders with Alexis Lafreniere's hat trick, drew about half as many views as these few seconds of Larkin.

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The numbers

A Short about one moment in one arena drew far more viewers and comments than this channel's Shorts usually do on their first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,350

this video

53,586

subscribers

879,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,178,568,737

views per day

53,475

typical day: 162,244

the video

views

58,764

likes

592

comments

71

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Overtime SZN

1,100,000

TSN

974,000

NFL on ESPN

909,000

TMZSports

883,000

NHL on ESPN

879,000

Locoprezident

768,000

As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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