The Red Wings took Dennis Cholowski 20th overall in the 2016 draft. At the time, the pick was called a reach and a project, but I loved it; it was exactly the high reward type of pick the Wings ought to have taken at the time, and it looks like it may work out really, really well for the Red Wings. Dennis Cholowski comes in at #8 on WiiM’s Tom 25 Under 25 reader poll for all the right reasons.
C-Lo has a long shadow to work his way out of; he was picked as a result of the Wings trading back with Arizona in 2016 in return for offloading the now-retired Datsyuk’s contract.