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Wings Select Dmitri Buchelnikov with the 52nd Overall Pick

Related Topics: Steve Yzerman, Yekaterinburg

Steve Yzerman and friends pitched a slider with their second round pick (52nd overall) by selecting Dmitri Buchelnikov. He was projected to go somewhere in the third to fourth round, but Detroit showed just how high they are on the kid by picking him this early, and with 51 picks between this selection and their next, they must have believed that he wouldn’t fall to 105th. This is essentially a bonus pick at any rate, having been acquired in the Mantha-Vrana trade.

At any rate, Buchelnikov (they pronounced it ‘Boo-SHELL-Nikov’ at the Bell Centre) is a left winger from Nizny Tagil, Russia, which is waaaaay out there by Perm and Yekaterinburg and the Ural Mountains (north of Khazakstan.