Red Wings sign All-Star Alex DeBrincat
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DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings signed two-time All-Star forward Alex DeBrincat to a seven-year contract worth $13 million per season on Wednesday.
The move provided desperately needed good news for a franchise mired in a decade-long postseason drought with an interim general manager, a former captain in limbo and an unsigned restricted free agent.
The 28-year-old DeBrincat has established himself as a productive offensive player in the NHL with 298 career goals and 603 points. He led the team and set a career high with 85 points last season and matched his career high with 41 goals, becoming the first player to have at least 40 goals for the Red Wings since Marian Hossa in 2009.
DeBrincat leads the Red Wings with four goals and eight points this season but they have lost five of their first six games.
Chicago selected DeBrincat in the second round of the 2016 draft. He was an All-Star with the Blackhawks during the 2022 season and was traded to Toronto the following offseason, The Red Wings acquired him in 2023 and he was an All-Star in his first season.
Former coach gets 90 years
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A former youth gymnastics coach has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for secretly videotaping young female students undressing and using the bathroom at a Mississippi gym.
U.S. District Judge Kristi Johnson gave the maximum sentence to 39-year-old Sean Gardner on Wednesday. She has ordered he serve 30 years in prison for each of the three federal child pornography production charges to which he pleaded guilty.
Gardner pleaded guilty to placing a hidden camera in a bathroom at a gymnastics studio between December 2017 and April 2018 to record students.