Detroit — After much hand-wringing and speculation, the availabile and protected lists for Wednesday's expansion draft were released Sunday morning.
There were some big and surprising names around the NHL, but for the Red Wings, the list was pretty much as expected.
They protected seven forwards, three defensemen and one goaltender, as expected, leaving off several notable (but not surprising) names.
On defense, the Wings protected Filip Hronek and newly-acquired Nick Leddy, along with young defenseman Gustav Lindstrom.
That leaves Danny DeKeyser, Dennis Cholowski and Troy Stecher as available defensemen for the expansion Seattke Kraken.