BREAKING: Red Wings Announce Official Roster

Hockey is back, folks. 

The 2016-2017 regular season schedule kicks off tonight, and NHL.com has officially announced the starting rosters. 

In the case of your Detroit Red Wings, there shouldn't be any surprises based on the roller-coaster of personnel decisions that took place yesterday. Their first game is against the Tampa Bay Lightning tomorrow, and here is their official roster:

Justin Abdelkader, Andreas Athanasiou, Danny DeKeyser, Jonathan Ericsson, Luke Glendening, Mike Green, Darren Helm, Jimmy Howard, Dylan Larkin, Alexei Marchenko, Drew Miller, Petr Mrazek, Frans Nielsen, Gustav Nyquist, Steve Ott, Xavier Ouellet, Edward Pasquale, Riley Sheahan, Brendan Smith, Ryan Sproul, Tomas Tatar, Thomas Vanek, Henrik Zetterberg.

Injured: Johan Franzen, Tomas Jurco, Niklas Kronwall, Tomas Nosek, Daniel Renouf, Vili Saarijarvi, Joe Vitale.

More on the official line combinations and defensive pairings later today.