One selection turned out to be the best draft pick in franchise history. The other was the biggest bust.
When Steve Yzerman makes the fourth overall selection in the2020 NHL draft, it will be the third time the franchise has picked at that spot. He himself was the last one, selected in 1983. In this edition of the Detroit Red Wings Revisited, we look back to the other time the organization has picked at that spot.
That happened in 1976, when the Wings selected a center from Saskatoon named Fred Williams. If the name evokes little in the way or remembrance, fret not.