from Ben Leeson of the Sudbury Star,

This is Davidson's second Stanley Cup win with the organization. Davidson, 27, is a graduate of Lasalle Secondary. He volunteered with the OHL's Sudbury Wolves, is a graduate of Laurentian's SPAD program in 2010. He landed an internship with the Blackhawks' American Hockey League affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs.

He started his current position as hockey operations coordinator back in June 2011. It's a job which allows Davidson to help the team manage the salary cap, deciding market value for players and helping to write NHL contracts to send out to the league office.

"I think I enjoy the idea of helping build the roster in a salary cap (era)," Davidson said. "It's a bit of a puzzle putting together the roster, one you gotta combine certain types of players, but also have to build in the financial aspect as you need to be compliant of the NHL salary cap. It's a balance of finding good players, but finding good players at a right cost. It's a puzzle always evolving, and you're projecting years from now on what and how players are doing or will be doing."

It's a job that can lead to difficult but necessary decisions.

"It's tough," Davidson said. "You see these guys that have become part of the team and sometimes you think they'll be part of the team for another eight years...we thought that with Brandon Saad, but with in a salary cap era it's tough because (he's) a player you can envision playing with Toews and Kane, but you have to move him and it's tough. You have to fill that role now. You have to separate emotion because you'd go crazy trying to overcome the emotional toll. You have to separate yourself from it, but at the end of the day it's a business and it's easier to handle if you take it that way."

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