With the NHL Draft Lottery settled and the Detroit Red Wings picking 9th in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft they have the chance to draft a possible franchise defenseman in Timothy Liljegren or at least a very very good defenseman.
I know many of our readers look out west, and see what Jakob Chychrun is doing for the Arizona Coyotes and can’t help but think what if?
Chychrun, was in a similar situation as Liljegren rated highly with little or no chance of falling down to Detroit. Then slowly but surely we heard the whispers and then he started to drop in mock drafts and dropped to 16 in the actual draft, where Detroit was picking and we know the history of how that played out.