The Blues "struck a blow for stability" yesterday, announcing they have signed President of Hockey Operations John Davidson to a multiyear extension, according to Dan O'Neill of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Terms of the extension were not disclosed. SCP Worldwide Chair Dave Checketts has put the Blues up for sale, but he said that Davidson and other team management "represent an attractive asset to a potential buyer." Davidson, who joined the Blues with Checketts in '06, "has been floating in a limbo of sorts the past several months." With his original contract "set to expire June 30, Davidson and the club essentially had reached agreement on a new deal months ago." But as Checketts and SCP "exhausted efforts to replace the club's major investor -- TowerBrook Capital Partners -- with new contributors, Davidson's status was pushed to the side." Checketts has stressed that there is "no clock ticking on the sale of the Blues." Davidson yesterday acknowledged that he "was not nearly as visible last season as in previous seasons, when he became the marketing face of the rebuilding franchise." But the "lower profile was by institutional design" as new GM Doug Armstrong "stepped to the forefront" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 5/4).
