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Detroit Red Wings Protected and Unprotected Lists Revealed

Here are the players that were protected by the Red Wings for the Expansion Draft.

  • Justin Abdelkader
  • Andreas Athanasiou
  • Anthony Mantha
  • Frans Nielsen
  • Gustav Nyquist
  • Tomas Tatar
  • Henrik Zetterberg
  • Danny DeKeyser
  • Mike Green
  • Nick Jensen
  • Jimmy Howard

Now the one’s that were left unprotected

  • Petr Mrazek
  • Luke Glendening
  • Darren Helm
  • Riley Sheahan
  • Xavier Ouellet
  • Drew Miller
  • Tomas Nosek
  • Ben Street
  • Ryan Sproul
  • Jared Coreau
  • Martin Frk
  • Eric Tangradi
  • Jonathan Ericsson
  • Niklas Kronwall
  • Brian Lashoff
  • Jake Paterson
  • Dylan McIlrath
  • Adam Almquist
  • Louis-Marc Aubry
  • Colin Campbell
  • Edward Pasquale

Rapid Reaction

The biggest question coming into Sunday was which goaltender would be unprotected.