A lions_metalhead blog:

On Wednesday, January 28, 2009 the Detroit Red Wings announced that they agreed to a contract extension with one of their star forwards, Henrik Zetterberg, to the tune of 12 years, 72 million dollars; making him the Red Wing with the richest and longest contract in the history of the storied franchise.

The deal is quite honestly a steal by Red Wings brass, lead by Kenny Holland, as they made a deal that creates a relatively small cap hit (6 million dollars against the cap averaged out over the course of the deal) with relatively small risk of the deal being a bust.

Hank has proven over the course of his career with the Red Wings that he is a big game player, ever since his rookie season in 2002-2003. He started to come into his own in the regular season over his first 2 or 3 seasons, and he made noise in the disappointingly short playoff run in 2006 when he posted 6 goals in 6 games played (the noise made though was rained upon by his -2 rating). In the 2006-2007 season he was a key player, along with Pavel Datsyuk, as they both shed the reputation of being weak playoff performers when Datsyuk scored 8 goals and 8 assists over 18 games and Hank scored 6 goals and 8 assists, also over 18 games.

I work for the competition, but there is still no reason for me to celebrate the demise of WDFN 1130. Less competition means fewer voices for the sports fans of Detroit.

In addition to my duties with The Detroit News, I also work for 97.1 FM The Ticket, doing the afternoon drive-time shift with my partner, Mike Valenti. Our station has been locked in combat with WDFN for years. We won, but I do not celebrate today.

The loss of WDFN means more people are out of jobs in this rough economy. Maybe they'll find other gigs here. Maybe they'll move and try to find jobs in other cities. The problem is, there are more companies in radio laying off than hiring. Newspapers are changing every day. Radio is, as well.