Detroit — Most of the prospects at this week’s Detroit Red Wings development camp have come from areas where hockey is the main sport around.
Then, there’s Ryan O’Reilly.
O'Reilly, a forward who was drafted in the fourth round by the Wings last week, is from suburban Dallas — Southlake — and hockey wasn’t exactly a way of life.
“That’s a football hotbed there,” O’Reilly said after Friday’s camp practice. “There was a stretch where they won the state championship five years in a row.
“That’s hard to do in 6A football down there.