BY GEORGE SIPPLE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • June 27, 2009 The Red Wings have become accustomed to waiting until the second round to make their first selection in the NHL entry draft. They've selected a player on the first day of the draft only four times since 2000, and they passed again Friday night, leaving the Bell Centre in Montreal without having anyone slip on the Winged Wheel jersey in the first round. The Wings traded the 29th overall pick to the Tampa Bay Lightning, moving down to the 32nd overall pick in the second round and picking up an extra third-round pick, 75th overall. The Lightning used the pick to select Lethbridge forward Carter Ashton, the son of former Red Wing Brent Ashton. "There are five or six guys we like, so we know we're going to get one of them," Wings assistant general manager Jim Nill said... [read full story]
