Breaking down which Red Wings players could have attended the 2022 Olympics

USA Hockey named its 2022 Olympic men’s ice hockey roster on Thursday and, as was the case at the 2018 PyeongChang games, it features zero players from the National Hockey League. Due to the continued spread of COVID-19 and shutdowns around the league, the NHL elected not to send its players to Beijing for the 2022 games. Team USA will instead feature a mix of amateurs, European league stars, former NHLers, and career minor-league players — and the rest of the participating teams will likely be constructed in a similar fashion. The NHL pulling out of the Beijing games undoubtedly represents a missed opportunity for multiple members of the Detroit Red Wings (including Moritz Seider, who was one of three players already named to Team Germany). Still, despite currently ranking in the bottom third of NHL teams in terms of points percentage, the Red Wings are hardly short on Olympic-calibre talent. Here’s a look at which members of the Red Wings would have been locks to attend the 2022 Olympics — and which player