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Drafting isn't easy, but the Wings will stick to their guns
If drafting and developing prospects was an exact science, the Globe and Mail's Tim Wharnsby suggests that it's the Nashville Predators who would have selected Pavel Datsyuk second overall in the 1998 draft, and the fact that Jonathan Ericsson is...
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The Stanley Cup Champions Plan Their Draft
KK Hockey — from Snapshots at Mlive, ...the Detroit Red Wings’ much-heralded scouts will attempt to assess the potential of six eighteen-year-old players, determining whether they can develop into professional hockey players when they’re 22, 23, or 24 years of age, and will make their picks at the end of each of the draft’s seven rounds (minus the 2nd round, as the Wings traded that pick to Los Angeles for Brad Stuart). read on

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