Red Wings open in Traverse City with 72 players

The Detroit Red Wings opened its 2015-16 Training Camp on Thursday, Sept. 17 at the Center Ice Arena in Traverse City.

The 16th Annual Training Camp Golf Classic was the first official event followed by four days of on-ice practices and scrimmages and the first pre-sesason game for the Wings is scheduled for Sept. 22 at the United Center against the Chicago Blackhawks, different versions of the same teams will square off the following night at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

Listed below are the players invited to camp in numerical and positional order.

Forwards – 41

#8 Justin Abdelkader; #11 Daniel Cleary; #13 Pavel Datsyuk; #14 Gustav Nyquist; #15 Riley Sheahan; #17 Brad Richards; #18 Joakim Andersson; #20 Drew Miller; #21 Tomas Tatar; #22 Andy Miele; #28 Tomas Jurco; #29 Landon Ferraro; #32 Louis-Marc Aubry; #37 Evgeny Svechnikov; #39 Anthony Mantha; #40 Henrik Zetterberg; #41 Luke Glendenning; #42 Martin Frk; #43 Darren Helm; #45 Colin Campbell; #46 Triston Grant; #49 Eric Tangradi; #54 Nick Betz; #56 Teemu Pulkkinen; #57 Mitch Callahan; #59 Tyler Bertuzi; #60 Marek Tverdon; #62 Zach Nastasiuk; #63 Adam Marsh; #67 Mark Zengerle; #70 Jerome Verrier; #71 Dylan Larkin; #72 Andreas Athanasiou; #73 Joel Rechlicz; #78 Dominic Turgeon; #80 Conor McGlynn; #81 Jeff Hoggan; #82 Evan Polei; #83 Tomas Nosek; #85 Kurt Etchegary; #93 Johan Franzen.

Defense – 24

#2 Brendan Smith; #3 Nick Jensen; #4 Jakub Kindl; #23 Brian Lashoff; #24 Nathan Paetsch; #25 Mike Green; #27 Kyle Quincey; #28 Vili Saarijarvi; #46 Jared Nightingale; #47 Alexey Marchenko; #48 Ryan Sproul #51 Robbie Russo; #52 Jonathan Ericsson; #53 Joe Hicketts; #55 Niklas Kronwall; #58 Justin Lemcke; #61 Xavier Ouellet; #64 Ty Stanton; #65 Danny Dekeyser; #75 Andrew Prochno; #77 Richard Nedomiel; #79 Scott Czarnowczan; #95 Jarrett Meyer; #97 Jalen Chatfield.