The Detroit Red Wings are looking better heading into the 2018 NHL draft.
Petr Mrazek won his fifth game since being traded to Philadelphia Flyers Feb. 19 on Sunday. As long as the Flyers make the playoffs — and that’s looking pretty safe as they have 85 points and are in third place in the Metropolitan Division — the 2018 conditional fourth-round pick the Wings received in the trade becomes a third-round pick.
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That would give the Wings three picks in the third round: their own, Pittsburgh’s (from the Scott Wilson trade) and Philadelphia’s.