Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman cleared a spot that potentially could be filled by his top draft pick from 2019.
What had been billed as a reclamation project turned into an abandoned project as the Wings did not qualify restricted free agent defenseman Madison Bowey by Wednesday’s deadline, leaving him free to find employment elsewhere and creating a roster opening in Detroit.
The novel coronavirus pandemic makes it hard to make much in the way of plans, but Moritz Seider fits the bill of a right-shot defenseman. He is on loan to his old German club, Mannheim, but can be recalled whenever the NHL gives the green light to start training camps.