I thought we could be done with this. I really hoped that when the St. John's Telegram, a Newfoundland-based local paper reported that Dan Cleary would be talking with Ken Holland in hopes of getting a new contract that it was little more than a reminder that Cleary still wanted to play. I hoped it worked without the ominous implication that the handshake agreement which netted Cleary $2.5M last year was still good for another season.
Then the diggers started picking it up. Right around the joyous time that Jeff Blashill was officially announced as Detroit's head coach, Ansar Khan slipped in his reporting of the news that Cleary and Holland still had much left to discuss after a report about Chris Chelios potentially joining Blashill's coaching staff.