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.