The NHL has released all the opening night rosters for their 30 clubs; here’s a breakdown of who we will be keeping an eye on when the season officially starts tonight.
Below is a list of Michigan natives and Michigan connections who are on NHL rosters for the start of the new season:
Anaheim: Andrew Cogliano, Cam Fowler
Boston: Gregory Campbell, Torey Krug
Buffalo: Ryan Miller, Kevin Porter, John Scott, Corey Tropp (injured)
Calgary: Mike Cammalleri (injured), Derek Smith
Carolina: Drayson Bowman, Brett Bellemore, Patrick Dwyer, Nathan Gerbe, Tim Gleason, Mike Komisarek
Chicago: Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Brandon Saad
Colorado: Matt Hunwick, John Mitchell
Columbus: Jared Boll, Jack Johnson, Mark Letestu, James Wisniewski
Dallas: Kevin Connauton, Shawn Horcoff, Chris Mueller, Tyler Seguin
Detroit: Justin Abdelkader, Jared Coreau, Danny DeKeyser, Drew Miller, Stephen Weiss
Edmonton: Mike Brown, Jeff Petry, Corey Potter (injured)
Florida: Tim Thomas, Mike Weaver
Los Angeles: Matt Greene, Alec Martinez, Justin Williams
Minnesota: None
Montreal: Max Pacioretty
Nashville: David Legwand, Eric Nystrom
New Jersey: Andy Greene
New York Islanders: none
New York Rangers: J.T. Miller, Carl Hagelin (injured)
Ottawa: Erik Condra, Joe Corvo
Philadelphia: Erik Gustafsson, Adam Hall
Phoenix: Paul Bissonnette, Chris Brown, David Moss, Chris Summers
Pittsburgh: Chris Conner, Chris Kunitz, James Neal, Jeff Zatkoff
St. Louis: Ian Cole
San Jose: none
Tampa Bay: Matt Taormina (injured)
Toronto: none
Vancouver: David Booth, Ryan Kesler, Mike Santorelli, Tom Sestito
Washington: Connor Carrick, Michal Neuvirth, Steve Oleksy, Tom Wilson
Winnipeg: Al Montoya, Jim Slater, Jacob Trouba, Chris Thorburn