Detroit, MI -- Detroit Red Wings left wing Brendan Shanahan has decided to exercise his option on a one-year contract and return for a ninth season in the Motor City.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Shanahan will skate in his 18th NHL season in 2005-06, but there had been speculation it would not be in Detroit, where he helped the Red Wings to three Stanley Cup titles in eight seasons.

The 36-year-old veteran was the only Red Wing to appear in all 82 regular- season games during the 2003-04 season. He scored 25 goals and added 28 assists for 53 points.

Shanahan joined Detroit early in the 1996-97 season in a trade with the Hartford Whalers. He has also played for the New Jersey Devils and St. Louis Blues, totalling 558 goals and 1,151 points.

The Devils selected him with the second overall pick of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft and he joined New Jersey as a teenager that season. After four years with the Devils, he signed with St. Louis and twice scored 50 goals in four seasons with the Blues before heading to Hartford for the 1995-96 campaign.

Two games into the '96-97 season, the Whalers traded him to Detroit in a deal that sent Keith Primeau and Paul Coffey to Hartford.