Detroit Red Wings forward Jakub Vrana enters NHL/NHLPA player assistance program - USA TODAY

Detroit Red Wings guardant Jakub Vrana has been placed successful NHL/NHLPA subordinate assistance program, the squad and league revealed Wednesday.

Vrana had been excused from the Wings since Monday, for what caput manager Derek Lalonde said were idiosyncratic reasons. Vrana, 26, volition beryllium unavailable to the squad "for an indefinite play portion helium receives care."

Under the presumption of the associated program, Vrana volition proceed to beryllium paid portion receiving treatment. He volition instrumentality to the Red Wings erstwhile cleared for on-ice contention by programme administrators. Vrana’s attraction volition beryllium administered pursuant to the program.

Vrana has a extremity and 2 assists successful 2 games this season. He is simply a top-six winger who plays a cardinal relation successful the team's offense. The Wings are besides without top-line winger Tyler Bertuzzi, who is retired 4-6 weeks with an upper-body wounded sustained erstwhile helium was deed by a puck successful what appeared to beryllium his close hand. Robby Fabbri, different top-six forward, had surgery successful the offseason and is not expected to instrumentality earlier mid-January.

In the archetypal crippled without Vrana, Filip Zadina played successful his spot adjacent to Andrew Copp and David Perron. Should the Red Wings determine they request to telephone idiosyncratic up, 1 campaigner is Jonatan Berggren, a skilled imaginable who showed good successful preseason games.

The Wings (2-0-1) adjacent play Friday astatine the Chicago Blackhawks.

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