TROY – Detroit Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg has received an offer to play in Switzerland during the NHL lockout, but is sticking around for now.

“I'm going to stay for now,'' Zetterberg said today, after skating with several teammates at the Troy Sports Center. “We haven't lost any (regular season) games yet. Once you start to lose games, if you get an offer or get a deal on the table, maybe you think about it.''

The Swiss newspaper Blick reported that HC Lugano's offer to Zetterberg includes $53,000 per month in insurance to help cover the cost of his contract in case of injury as well as a $2,000 monthly salary and apartment.

Zetterberg, 31, has nine years and $50.1 million remaining on the 12-year, $73 million deal he signed in 2009.

Zetterberg played for his former Swedish club, Timra, during the 2004-05 lockout, but has ruled out returning to his native country.

“It's going to be tough to go to Sweden, (because of) the insurance and all the taxes we have there,'' Zetterberg said. “But there are other leagues in Europe that you can go to.''

Five Red Wings are playing in Europe: Pavel Datsyuk for CSKA Moscow in Russia, Valtteri Filppula for Jokerit in Finland, Jakub Kindl for Pardubice in the Czech Republic, Jan Mursak for HDD Olimpija Ljubljana in Slovenia and Damien Brunner for EV Zug in Switzerland.

Niklas Kronwall said if the lockout drags on for a while he would consider playing for his former Swedish club, Djurgardens.

Justin Abdelkader, Jonathan Ericsson and Cory Emmerton also have expressed varying degrees of interest in playing in Europe.

More than 100 NHL players have signed with European clubs thus far.

The NHL is expected to begin canceling regular season games this week, perhaps on Thursday. The season is scheduled to start on Oct. 11.

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