Detroit Red Wings Draft Picks
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey franchise who currently play in the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Based in Detroit, Michigan, the franchise was founded in 1926 as the Detroit Cougars. The club name was changed to the Falcons in 1930 and finally to the Red Wings in 1932. The Red Wings have participated in all 49 NHL Entry Drafts as well as six supplemental drafts.
The NHL Entry Draft is held each June, allowing teams to select players who have turned 18 years old by September 15 in the year the draft is held. The draft order is determined by the previous season's order of finish, with non-playoff teams drafting first, followed by the teams that made the playoffs, with the specific order determined by the number of points earned by each team. The NHL holds a weighted lottery for the 14 non-playoff teams, allowing the winner to move up a maximum of four positions in the entry draft. The team with the fewest points has the best chance of winning the lottery, with each successive team given a lower chance of moving up in the draft. Between 1986 and 1994, the NHL also held a Supplemental Draft for players in American colleges.
Detroit's first draft pick was Peter Mahovlich, taken second overall in the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft. The Red Wings have chosen first overall three times, selecting Claude Gauthier in 1964, Dale McCourt in 1977, and Joe Murphy in 1986. McCourt and Murphy both spent some time in the NHL with Detroit, but Gauthier never played in the league. Two players drafted by Detroit, Marcel Dionne and Steve Yzerman, both first round picks, have gone on to be selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Yzerman won the Stanley Cup four times with Detroit, three times as a player and once as an executive, and is currently the General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
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