Red Wings Podcast Starts A Card Drive To Show Support For Jakub Vrana In The NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program - NoVa Caps

The NHL announced connected October 19 that erstwhile Washington Capitals and existent Detroit Red Wings guardant Jakub Vrana had been placed successful the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program. Well-wishes and messages of emotion and encouragement person been pouring successful passim the week. The Grind Line Podcast, which talks each things Red Wings, has started a Jakub Vrana Card Drive successful an effort to amusement enactment to 26-year-old.

The podcast announced the inaugural connected Sunday. They are asking fans to message cards, notes of support, pictures, etc. to Vrana. If you would similar to partake successful the effort, the code is below:

Jakub Vrana

C/O Detroit Red Wings

2645 Woodward Avenue

Detroit, Michigan 48201

Remember we inactive person the paper thrust happening truthful get those successful to amusement your enactment for V! #WereWithV #LGRW https://t.co/sOr9m6nJpG

— The Grind Line Podcast™ (@GrindLinePod) October 26, 2022

Vrana is unavailable to the Red Wings for an indefinite play portion helium receives attraction from the subordinate assistance programme of the NHL and NHLPA. Under the presumption of the associated program, Vrana volition proceed to beryllium paid portion receiving attraction and volition instrumentality to the squad erstwhile cleared for on-ice contention by the programme administrators. His attraction volition beryllium administered pursuant to the NHL/NHLPA subordinate assistance program.

The NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program was created successful 1996 to assistance NHL players and their families woody with substance abuse, intelligence health, and different idiosyncratic challenges.

Vrana didn’t play successful the October 17 crippled against the Los Angeles Kings and didn’t enactment successful the pursuing day’s signifier owed to what the Wings called “personal reasons.” The squad removed Vrana from their progressive roster earlier successful the time connected October 19th earlier the league had announced the news.

Vrana played implicit 11 minutes connected October 15th’s 5-2 triumph successful New Jersey, scoring his archetypal extremity of the play against chap Czech champion person and Devils goaltender Vitek Vanecek.

V GOES TOP 🧀! pic.twitter.com/HmNS1hf1um

— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) October 16, 2022

Vrana has lone played 39 games since arriving astatine the commercialized deadline successful April 2021 successful the woody that sent Anthony Mantha to Washington. He missed the archetypal 56 games of past play owed to enarthrosis country aft sustaining an wounded wrong the archetypal 10 minutes of grooming camp. However, successful those 39 games arsenic a Red Wing, Vrana has scored 22 goals with 10 assists.

We don’t privation to speculate what specifically Vrana is dealing with, but we proceed to privation him each the champion and a speedy instrumentality to the Red Wings and the NHL.

By Della Young