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Red Wings Waiver Status: What the hell are we going to do with all these players?

Since we’ve hit the “slow” part of the offseason, there’s plenty of time to speculate and analyze this Red Wings roster from top-to-bottom. I had recently woken up in a cold sweat thinking about waiver-eligible players, so here we are. The Red Wings have a crop of young players that will need to have a spot in the NHL, or the team will risk them being exposed to waivers. As we all know, we’ve lost players like Andrej Nestrasil and Landon Ferraro to teams with nothing to show for it. The difference this time around is that the kids who are waiver-eligible have more upside than the aforementioned players.