DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings will host the 2014 NHL Prospects Tournament for the 16th season at Center ICE Arena in Traverse City, Mich., running from Friday, Sept. 12 to Tuesday, Sept. 16. The eight-team tournament will include the Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues.Tickets for the tournament are still available for $10 per day, which covers four games, exclusively at Centre ICE Arena. For more information on tickets, visit www.centreice.org .

Over the tournament’s history, 440 players have gone on to skate in at least one NHL game, including six who skated with the Red Wings during the 2013-14 season: Tomas Jurco, Alexey Marchenko, Xavier Ouellet, Teemu Pulkkinen, Riley Sheahan and Ryan Sproul. The tournament will divide the eight-team field into four-team divisions: the Gordie Howe Division (Columbus, Detroit, Minnesota and St. Louis) and the Ted Lindsay Division (Buffalo, Carolina, Dallas and NY Rangers). Teams will play each of the three opponents within their division during the round-robin before a crossover on the final day of the tournament, capped off with the first-place finishers in each division meeting for the championship on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The Red Wings are the defending champions, capturing their first tournament crown last year.

2014 NHL PROSPECTS TOURNAMENT

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – SEPTEMBER 12-16, 2014