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Blashill and bench assistants Dan Bylsma and Doug Houda are all on expiring contracts. Yzerman may opt to clean house, but on the flip side, he seems to enjoy working with Blashill, and Blashill s salary $1.6 million is all the more reasonable, given the pandemic has greatly limited revenues for more than a year.
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