Generally speaking, the most interesting roster construction questions involving the Red Wings right now revolve around this month’s trade deadline. And by virtue of Detroit’s status as a rebuilding franchise, that means most of them are about potentially outgoing players.



But one interesting nugget dropped this week about an entirely different situation, on a slightly further-out timeline: the pending free agency of Columbus winger Artemi Panarin.



Speaking on TSN’s Winnipeg 1290 “The Big Show” Monday morning, NHL insider Bob McKenzie said the following:



“My understanding is that any of the Florida teams, he’s interested in. Any of the big teams on the Eastern seaboard, the New York Rangers, like that. The Chicago Blackhawks, there’s been indications that they would go back and try to find a way to work him back into the fold. I don’t think smaller-market Canadian teams would be in his wheelhouse at all.