Finally! It’s been a long road to this point, but at long last we have protection lists in hand for the Expansion Draft... kinda.... As usual, the NHL is takin 10am to mean.... maybe 2:47pm? Who knows. But, we do have a report on the Red Wings list! Check it out for yourself here, courtesy of Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press:
Red Wings protect Abdelkader, Athanasiou, Mantha, Nielsen, Nyquist, Tatar, Zetterberg, DeKeyser, Green, Jensen, Howard.
— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) June 18, 2017
We don’t expect these to vary much from the snippets that were leaked yesterday, which is exciting for both Peter and me because it means we nailed a few of these things, or missed rosters by 1 player.