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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2539387" data-attributes="member: 2012">Report: Labour Day is D-Day for DatsyukTSN.ca Staff9/2/2005 3:49:06 PMAccording to his agent, Pavel Datsyuk intends to sign with his Russian pro team if the Detroit Red Wings don't sign him by Labour Day.''If the Red Wings are unable to sign a contract with Datsyuk by then, than we would have to postpone the negotiations with Detroit until next spring,'' Datsyuk's agent Gary Greenstin told Soviet Sport newspaper on Wednesday.Red Wings general mangaer Ken Holland, however, tells the Detroit News that he won't be backed into a corner.''They've got some dates that they feel are pressure points,'' Holland said to the paper. ''But those dates don't mean anything to me. I don't think that's a very good negotiation, when I'm operating under a deadline and nobody else is. ''Obviously, if Pavel chooses to sign a contract in Russia, that's up to him. But he could sign a contract in Russia with an out-clause negotiated in it.''Datsyuk scored 30 goals and dished out 38 assists in 75 games for the Red Wings in 2003-04.</blockquote>