Sunday's Dump & Chase: Do Svidaniya

Pavel Datsyuk announced his retirement from the NHL on Saturday, as expected. The future of his cap hit is still very much in the air, though. That's a crippling amount of dead cap space, but the Red Wings would have to move decent assets in exchange for getting it off their books for just one s

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