TRAVERSE CITY - After his team missed the playoffs the past two seasons and finished near the bottom of the NHL in 2017-18, Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said Thursday, "I think there's tons of spots that are up for grabs."
That might be a stretch, but there appears to be more jobs available in training camp than in years past.
"I think after two years of not being good enough, it's as wide open a camp as we've had here in a long, long time," Blashill said. "I hope that a bunch of guys we've had on our team got better this summer.