FILE - Colorado Avalanche right winger Milan Hejduk, of the Czech Republic, raises his stick after scoring the first of two goals in the first period in the Avalanche's 5-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings in Denver on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003. Hejduk also scored an empty-netter as seconds were running out in the game to notch a hat trick. The Avalanche signed Hejduk to a five-year, $19.5-million US deal Saturday. The five-foot-11, 185-pound Hejduk is scheduled to earn $3.7 million this year, $3.8 million in 2006-’07 and $4 million in each of the final three seasons. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/AP-David Zalubowski)