The Detroit Red Wings have loaned another top prospect to a European hockey team to continue their development during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Forward Filip Zadina, the sixth overall pick in 2018, will play for HC Ocelari Trinec of the Czech Extraliga, the highest-level hockey league in the Czech Republic.
Last week, defenseman Moritz Seider, the sixth overall pick in 2019, was loaned to the Mannheim Eagles of the top league in Germany, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
"It was an easy decision for me," Zadina told the Trinec team's website. "Trinec belongs to the top. I think that here are the best conditions for hockey in the Czech Republic.