Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Yzerman GM, but not of the Red Wings.

Word on the street is that Stevie Y is taking a GM position with the Tampa Bay Lightning. I have mixed feelings about it. Yzerman is 100% Detroit. Drafted, Captained, Cupped, Retired, HOF'd you name it, he did it with Detroit. The organization was grooming him for management, and he did a solid job with Team Canada at the Olympics. (Really, you can only fail at that job and good on him for even taking it) But Ken Holland is not going anywhere. The reality is that Yzerman had to leave Detroit to be a GM. It might be for the best. Can you really expect anyone to surpass what Holland has done? Yzerman can carve out his own GM legend in a different town, but his place in Detroit is already set in stone.

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