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As far as I'm concerned, the reason Detroit won on Saturday was the suffocating play of Jonathan Ericsson and Nicklas Kronwall. Tough to imagine the Tre Kronor not taking both of them and making them the second pairing at Sochi (behind Karlsson and Ekman-Larrson). The Ericsson/Kronwall pairing were dominant on Saturday playing nearly ten minutes of shutdown hockey against the Jonathan Toews line. I'm so impressed by Ericsson's play in particular, his stretch pass to set up Johan Franzen's game sealing goal was icing on the cake of a lights-out two-way performance. Ericsson has come an awful long way as a defenceman this season.

 

 

This article is called Jimmy The Great.

This realignment kind of looks like a precursor to some kind of expansion later. I know there has been talk of second Toronto and Quebec teams but those western conferences sure look like Kansas City and Seattle would slot right in there.

 

 

$4,500,000 per year.

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Per rules of the new CBA, DiPietro still carries cap hit of (pro-rated) $3.6mil ($4.5m minus $900k) even if he stays in Bridgeport

What are the team's salary obligations if he makes it to the AHL?

$4,500,000 per year.