When you are taken in the 10^th Round in the NHL Draft, making the parent club for a cup of coffee is usually considered a success.  Tomas Holmstrom, who was selected 257^th Overall in 1994, would give the Detroit Red Wings 1,026 Games.

One of only a select group of players to have won a Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings (1997, 1998, 2002 & 2008), Kris Draper was a famed "grinder" of those teams.

The selection of Vladimir Konstantinov in the 11^th Round of the 1989 Draft was as good as stealing.  This was one of the last years that it was considered pointless to take players from the U.S.S.R., and two years later, he defected, joining the Detroit Red Wings in 1991.

Detroit Red Wings owner, James Norris, called Larry Aurie the franchise's heart and soul, and praise doesn't get much better than that.