The Detroit Red Wings want head coach Mike Babcock to stay put.
During a media availability Friday, general manager Ken Holland expressed his desire to sign his team’s bench boss of the past 10 years to a new contract.
Holland said he and Babcock, whom he described as “an unrestricted free agent in the prime of his career,” talked briefly Friday morning and will meet again to talk about a new deal early next week.
"I want Mike to stay, I’ve expressed that to him,” Holland told reporters at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena. “Money is no object.