DETROIT, MICHIGAN - MAY 01: Jakub Vrana #15 of the Detroit Red Wings skates against the Tampa Bay Lightning astatine Little Caesars Arena connected May 01, 2021 successful Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) (Gregory Shamus, 2021 Getty Images)

DETROIT – Detroit Red Wings guardant Jakub Vrana has entered the subordinate assistance programme of the NHL and NHL Players’ Association.

The league and the national made the announcement Wednesday. They did not specify wherefore helium entered the program.

Vrana volition beryllium paid portion helium is receiving treatment. The programme administrators volition find erstwhile he's cleared to vie for the Red Wings.

The 26-year-old Vrana had a extremity and an assistance successful Saturday's win astatine New Jersey. Two days later, the squad said helium did not play successful a location crippled against the Los Angeles Kings owed to idiosyncratic reasons.

Vrana, who is from the Czech Republic, has 98 goals and 91 assists successful 323 vocation regular-season games. He was selected by Washington with the No. 13 prime successful the 2014 draft.

The Red Wings acquired Vrana successful a commercialized with the Capitals successful April 2021, on with Richard Panik, a first- and second-round prime successful speech for Anthony Mantha. A small much than a twelvemonth ago, the Red Wings gave him a three-year declaration worthy $5.25 cardinal per season.

The NHL and NHLPA started the subordinate assistance programme successful 1996, giving players entree to a confidential telephone enactment and counselors successful each metropolis successful the league. The jointly funded radical assists players and their families with intelligence health, substance maltreatment and different matters.

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