Larkin not having fun in another losing season for the Red Wings.

The Detroit Red Wings have shown some improvement in this regular season but as the season begins to wind down things have started to turn ugly once again for the proud National Hockey League franchise. The Red Wings are the losers of 6 straight games and now find themselves 23 points out of a playoff spot, with no real hope of making it into those Stanley Cup playoffs at this stage of the season.

For some members of the Red Wings roster this is just one more losing season, more of the same, and it may be starting to take a toll on some of the franchise's most important players. On Sunday the Red Wings suffered yet another frustrating loss, this time at the hands of the Ottawa Senators who are even further out of the playoff picture than the Red Wings, and following that loss Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin admitted that it has been difficult to deal with.

"I look around and I don’t see a lot of joy, I don’t see a lot of guys having fun," said Larkin as per Red Wings insider Ansar Khan. "We need to change that and enjoy playing hockey."

"Yeah, the guys are frustrated,”" Larkin said. "It just hasn’t gone the way any of us want it to go since even before the trade deadline."

If Larkin and the Red Wings are hoping to turn things around prior to the end of the regular season those changes will have to come internally from the players themselves, as it seems extremely unlikely that the Red Wings would make any significant changes between now and the end of the season. That being said this month will mark the 3 year anniversary of former Red Wings superstar Steve Yzerman's appointment as general manager of the franchise, and after yet another losing season you have to wonder if this may not be the offseason where he gives his team a jolt in the arm.

Yzerman has plenty of cap space to work with and will have more coming off the books with players like Danny DeKeyser ($5 million average annual value) and Marc Staal ($2 million average annual value) on contracts that will expire at the end of this current season. Yzerman has also indicated he will meet with head coach Jeff Blashill at the end of the season to discuss his future with the team.