Wild sign Eriksson Ek to 8-year, $42M contract

Detroit forward Kris Draper, a winner of three Stanley Cups with the Red Wings, signed a three-year contract extension Friday that averages $1.6 million per season. The 36-year-old Draper has five goals and an assist through the first 11 games of his 14th season with Detroit. Draper won the 2004 Selke award as the NHL’s best defensive and represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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Flyers forward Joffrey Lupul has a sprained left wrist and was listed as day to day on Thursday, an improved diagnosis after Philadelphia feared he broke his wrist. “He had some medicine injected into that wrist this morning, and we’re hopeful that with three-to-five days of rest, he’ll be better,” said Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren.