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The Detroit Red Wings will host the 17th annual NHL Prospect Tournament at Centre Ice Arena in Traverse City, MI next month. This year’s tournament is scheduled from September 11 – 15 and will feature teams from Carolina, Columbus, Chicago, Minnesota, Dallas, St. Louis, New York and Detroit. This season will feature the return of the 2015 Stanley Cup Champions the Chicago Black Hawks after previously participating from 1998 – 2000.

Over the tournament’s history, 479 players have gone on to skate in at least one NHL game, including 22 who played for Detroit in 2014-15: Justin Abdelkader, Joakim Andersson, Dan Cleary, Pavel Datsyuk, Jonathan Ericsson, Landon Ferraro, Darren Helm, Jimmy Howard, Tomas Jurco, Niklas Kronwall, Brian Lashoff, Alexey Marchenko, Tom McCollum, Petr Mrazek, Gustav Nyquist, Xavier Ouellet, Teemu Pulkkinen, Kyle Quincey, Riley Sheahan, Brendan Smith, Tomas Tatar and Henrik Zetterberg.

The tournament will divide the participating teams into two four-team divisions: the Gordie Howe Division (Carolina, Chicago, Dallas and Detroit) and the Ted Lindsay Division (Columbus, Minnesota, NY Rangers and St. Louis). Teams will play each opponent in their division in a round-robin format before a crossover on the final day of the tournament, capped off with the first-place finishers in each division meeting for the Matthew Wuest Memorial Cup on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The tournament’s championship trophy was renamed this summer in honor of Wuest (pronounced WEEST), known for his work on the website CapGeek.com as well as his exclusive coverage and statistical archiving of the NHL Prospect Tournament on RedWingsCentral.com, spanning back to the inaugural tournament in 1998. Wuest passed away in March 2015 after succumbing to a two-year battle with colon cancer.

A complete schedule is below:

Friday, September 11
Practice

8:30 – 9:15 am Minnesota (David’s) / New York (West Rink)
9:30 – 10:15 am St. Louis (David’s) / Columbus (West Rink)
10:30 – 11:15 am Chicago (David’s) / Dallas (West Rink)
11:30 – 12:15 pm Carolina (David’s) / Detroit (West Rink)

Games
3:30 pm Minnesota / New York (David’s)
4:00 pm St. Louis / Columbus (West Rink)
7:00 pm Chicago / Dallas (David’s)
7:30 pm Carolina / Detroit (West Rink)

Saturday, September 12
Practice
8:30 – 9:15 am Dallas (David’s) / Carolina (West Rink)
9:30 – 10:15 am Chicago (David’s) / Detroit (West Rink)
10:30 – 11:15 am Minnesota (David’s) / Columbus (West Rink)
11:30 – 12:15 pm New York (David’s) / St. Louis (West Rink)

Games
3:30 pm Dallas / Carolina (David’s)
4:00 pm Detroit/ Chicago (West Rink)
7:00 pm Columbus / Minnesota (David’s)
7:30 pm St. Louis / New York (West Rink)

Sunday, September 13
Practice
9:30 – 10:30 am Carolina (David’s) / Dallas (West Rink)
10:45 – 11:45 pm Chicago (David’s) / Detroit (West Rink)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Minnesota (David’s) / Columbus (West Rink)
1:15 – 2:15 pm St. Louis (David’s) / New York (West Rink)

Games
No games scheduled

Monday, September 14
Practice
8:30 – 9:15 am Minnesota (David’s) / St. Louis (West Rink)
9:30 – 10:15 pm New York (David’s) / Columbus (West Rink)
10:30 – 11:15 am Carolina (David’s) / Chicago (West Rink)
11:30 – 12:15 pm Dallas (David’s) / Detroit (West Rink)

Games
3:00 pm Minnesota / St. Louis (David’s)
3:30 pm New York/ Columbus (West Rink)
6:30 pm Carolina / Chicago (David’s)
7:00 pm Dallas / Detroit (West Rink)

Tuesday, September 15
Practice
10:00 – 10:45 am 2nd place Lindsay (David’s) / 2nd place Howe (West Rink)
11:00 – 11:45 pm 1st place Lindsay (David’s) / 1st place Howe (West Rink)

Games
3:00 pm 7th place  (David’s)
3:30 pm 5th place (West Rink)
6:30 pm 3rd place (David’s)
7:00 pm Championship (West Rink)