Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock, whose contract expires at the end of June, said Friday in an interview with Darren Dreger of TSN that he expects make a decision about his next job within the next week.
"The decision date is going to be moved up," Babcock told Dreger in an interview conducted at the IIHF World Championship in Prague, Czech Republic. "I'll bet you by [May] 20, I'm going to know what I'm doing."
Detroit general manager Ken Holland, who was also in the TSN interview, had said he was hoping to have Babcock's answer by May 25.