DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings signed defenceman Jonathan Ericsson to a $25.5 million, six-year contract Wednesday to keep him off the market in July. "He wouldve been tough to lose in free agency," Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said. "This was a big priority because in a two-year period, we lost Nick Lidstrom, Brian Rafalski and Brad Stuart. We couldnt afford to lose Big E, too." Detroit drafted Ericsson with the last pick in the 2002 NHL draft, 291st overall, and he has played in 292 games since making his debut in the league during the 2007-08 season. He averaged 20-plus minutes a game last season for the first time in his career, which previously included sitting and watching defencemen such as Lidstrom, Rafalski and Stuart play a lot more. "He had a tremendous opportunity last year as one of our top defencemen for the first time and he took full advantage of it," Holland said. "When we played Chicago and Anaheim in the playoffs, he played against their best offensive players. Big E is a big guy who is really mobile and has developed into a player we count on in a lot of situations." The 29-year-old Ericsson has 14 goals, 62 points and a plus-14 rating entering Wednesday nights game against the Boston Bruins over at least parts of seven NHL seasons. The Swede has five goals and 16 points in 64 post-season games. He had 13 points -- two shy of his career high -- in 45 games last season during the lockout-shortened slate. Ericsson is in the third and final season of a three-year contract he signed in the summer of 2011 Wholesale Fake Jerseys .com) - Robert Upshaw made a putback jumper to put 17th-ranked Washington ahead with 1:27 remaining in the game and the Huskies held on to beat Eastern Washington 81-77 on Sunday. Fake Baseball Jerseys . Canada will host the second stop on the circuit, the 2014 Skate Canada International in Kelowna, British Columbia from October 31 - November 2, 2014 at Prospera Place. http://www.fakejersey.com/.ca. The NHL Play of the Year showdown kicks off with some slick moves going head-to-head with a combination of soft hands and endless patience. Fake NCAA Jerseys .5 million, two-year contract that runs through 2015. Venable, the son of former big leaguer Max Venable, will make $4. Fake Football Jerseys . -- John Senden never imagined it would take more than seven years to win again.Wolfsburg, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) - Two goals apiece from Bas Dost and Kevin De Bruyne powered Wolfsburg to a stunning 4-1 win over leaders Bayern Munich at the Volkswagen Arena on Friday. After giving up just four goals in the first 17 games of the Bundesliga season, Bayern was shredded for four in 90 minutes on Friday as Dost opened the scoring in the fourth minute before adding a second goal just before halftime. De Bruyne stretched the advantage to 3-0 in the 53rd, while Juan Bernat managed to pull a goal back two minutes to later to reduce the deficit. The result was then secure in the 73rd when De Bruyne added his second goal in the span of 20 minutes, handing Bayern its first defeat of the season. Wolfsburg moves to within eight points of Bayern with the win, and the club jumps nine points ahead of third-place Bayer Leverkusen, which faces struggling Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. The hostss jumped out to a fast start and were in front inside of four minutes with De Bruyne leading the break and playing a through ball into the path of Dost, who tracked it down and drove a low shot inside the right post.dddddddddddd Wolfsburg goalkeeper Diego Benaglio was tested by Bastian Schweinsteiger, Robert Lewandowski and David Alaba, but he came up big and kept his side in front before Dost made it 2-0 at the break with a wonderful volley from the top of the penalty area. The assault continued in the second half as Maximilian Arnold played well- weighted ball over the top that De Bruyne controlled before slotting his shot past goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. Bernat scored his first goal of the season in the 55th after his shot took a wicked deflection off Wolfsburg defender Naldo, but that would be the lone blemish for the home side, which added a fourth goal through De Bruyne with a fine left-footed finish. ' ' '