Detroit — This happened a lot to the Detroit Red Wings during June’s Entry Draft, when the organization picked so many players who appeared to slip in the draft and land in the Wings’ laps.
Teams, or fellow scouts, would congratulate the Wings landing a player who somehow slipped down the draft much further than anyone anticipated.
And, so it went, when the Wings picked forward Jonatan Berggren, drafted in the second round.
“A couple of teams came up and said they were planning to take him right after us,” said Hakan Andersson, the Wings’ director of European scouting.