The Red Wings now have 23 active players and three on injured reserve after assigning seven players to Grand Rapids and releasing Brad May, who had to be released before he could sign a PTO (professional tryout) with the Griffins. Look for that to happen soon.

Johan Ryno, Mattias Ritola, Andy Delmore, Francis Pare, Logan Pyett, Jakub Kindl and Evan McGrath were all shipped to Grand Rapids after Sunday's preseason win over Pittsburgh. In addition, Darren Helm (shoulder) and Cory Emmerton (sore upper body) were placed on short-term injured reserve. Andreas Lilja is on long-term injured reserve.

That means that there were no roster surprises to open the season. Patrick Eaves and Justin Abdelkader are on the team, two of the 13 forwards. Derek Meech is one of seven active defensemen. Chris Osgood, Jimmy Howard and Daniel Larsson are the goalies.

FORWARDS
Zetterberg
Datsyuk
Filppula
Franzen
Leino
Cleary
Abdelkader
Williams
Draper
Holmstrom
Maltby
Bertuzzi
Eaves

DEFENSEMEN
Kronwall
Meech
Stuart
Ericsson
Lebda
Rafalski
Lidstrom

GOALIES
Osgood
Howard
Larsson