A year after the Detroit Red Wings declared Petr Mrazek their No. 1 goalie, he is being exposed in the expansion draft.
The NHL released lists of whom NHL teams protected this morning. The Wings went the seven forwards, three defensemen and one goaltender option, and protected forwards Justin Abdelkader, Andreas Athanasious, Anthony Mantha, Frans Nielsen, Gustav Nyquist, Tomas Tatar, Henrik Zetterberg; defensemen Mike Green, Danny DeKeyser and Nick Jensen, and goaltender Jimmy Howard.
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That leaves Mrazek, Riley Sheahan, Darren Helm, Xavier Ouellet and Luke Glendening among the exposed. First- and second-year pros were exempt, so the Wings did not have to protect Dylan Larkin, Evgeny Svechnikov nor Tyler Bertuzzi.