Shanahan staying with Red Wings

[BlackLabelJetsFan]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=131712

Brendan Shanahan decided to stay with the Detroit Red Wings, exercising an option Thursday on the final year of his contract.

Shanahan will make about $2.3 million US during the upcoming season as the league resumes play after a lockout wiped out the previous year. The 36-year-old forward is among active leaders with 558 career goals and 1,151 points.

With 45 points, he helped Detroit win Stanley Cups in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

Shanahan scored only one goal in each of the previous two postseasons and the Red Wings had early exits with star-studded teams. During the 2003-04 season, he had 25 goals - his fewest in a full season since 1989.

He has been in Detroit since the 1996-'97 season after playing in Hartford, St. Louis and New Jersey. He scored more than 50 goals in consecutive seasons with the Blues in the mid-1990s, and had 46 in his first campaign with the Red Wings.

Shanahan didn't sit around during the NHL lockout. He hosted a two-day summit at his expense to figure out ways to improve the game in December prior to what appeared to be a critical bargaining session in Toronto.

He invited players, coaches, executives, referees and broadcasters to a high-powered brain-storming conference and made several suggestions to the league, some of which were adopted.

[stormshadow19]

Damn it... damn it! I am not happy... when I heard he was going to go to Boston, I was doing cartwheels and the happy dance. I am NOT happy

[The Gun Of Bavaria]

Who do you keep if not Shanny? Gotta have some vets on the team.

[stormshadow19]

Who do you keep if not Shanny? Gotta have some vets on the team.

Well, the team still had Lang and Lidstrom. It's a far different NHL. Shanny doesn't produce anymore. He's old. He's slow. And, he doesn't use his size for anything.