Hakan Andersson disproves self

[Stu in Israel 0]

In a recent interview, Hakan Andersson, Red Wings Director of European Scouting, said (something to the effect) that any draftee below the third round doesn't have a realistic chance of making the NHL. Andersson's analysis may be correct, but in addition to the Red Wings' success with low round draftees, the ENTIRE first line of the Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings, were all drafted below the third round:

Tomas Holmstrom 10th round 257th player taken 1994

Pavel Datsyuk 6th round 171st player taken 1998

Henrik Zetterberg 7th round 210th player taken 1999

[DaKineMaui 8]

Is Hakan Andersson just trying to be humble? I dunno - I guess technically he's correct though.

aloha

[Datsyerberger 279]

And the part of that statement he said only to himself mentally was "...unless you know where to look."

[Swede40 0]

All the Wings can do is draft the player. The rest is on the player to want to make it to the NHL.

[Cicada 4]

a lot is made of the Wings scouting, but their player development is second to none. Since we've actually been keeping out picks we've developed some pretty incredible talent..

we all know about out log jam on defense, but were starting to get one on forwards now too with Emmerton, Mursak etc all turning pro, and pretty much all of our talent is developed by us given a few exceptions..

i doubt any team in the league can match us for this, especially considering we also have no trouble at all attracting free agents..

now we've also got 3 very promising goalie prospects as well...

things are good

[Earthhuman 8]

now we've also got 3 very promising goalie prospects as well...

Did Howard ever accept that contract?

[betterREDthandead 58]

Did Howard ever accept that contract?

There was no contract.