Former Oilers goaltender Jack Campbell enters NHL/NHLPA player assistance program

Former Edmonton Oiler and existent Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jack Campbell has entered the NHL/NHLPA subordinate assistance program.

The league and national said Friday that Campbell volition beryllium distant from the Red Wings enactment indefinitely portion helium receives care. He whitethorn instrumentality to practices and games erstwhile cleared by programme administrators.

Campbell, 32, was expected to statesman the play with the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League. Detroit signed him for the league-minimum $775,000 aft the Edmonton Oilers bought retired the 3 seasons remaining connected his five-year, $25 cardinal declaration past summer.

He is the archetypal subordinate to beryllium announced arsenic entering the programme this fall, aft 5 players past season. That’s the aforesaid fig who participated implicit the erstwhile 3 years combined.

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Help is offered for thing from intoxicant oregon cause maltreatment to intelligence wellness issues, sleeping problems oregon a gambling addiction. Confidentiality is guaranteed for players and their household members, astatine slightest erstwhile it comes to details. An announcement is made lone erstwhile a subordinate becomes unavailable to his squad during the season.

Campbell is with his 5th NHL squad aft being a first-round draught prime of the Dallas Stars and breaking successful with them, past spending clip with the Los Angeles Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers. He played the bulk of past play with the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors.

Joining the Red Wings was a instrumentality location of sorts for Campbell, who is from Port Huron, Michigan.