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Steve Yzerman Retires!!

StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
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Sorry to hear this as a fan, happy for him though.


Thanks for the memories!!

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  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
    Kind of a lousy day in Detroit sports. First Yzerman, and now Ben Wallace!
  • 80sToyguy80sToyguy Posts: 383
    Total class act Yzerman was, could have gone elsewhere many times but stayed in the city he loved (and for less a few times).
    He will be sorely missed,
    Jay
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭✭
    For those of us who grew up in Detroit sports (or at least for me), Yzerman's retirement signifies more than just the end of a great hockey career and the end of a great captaincy . . . it's the end of a 25 year run of athletes in our four major sports (Trammell, Whitaker, Barry Sanders, Dumars, and now Stevie Y) that stayed out of trouble, played the game at a high level, and most of all were loyal to their city. It will be a while before we see any like them again. We were truly blessed . . . thanks guys.
  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭


    << <i>For those of us who grew up in Detroit sports (or at least for me), Yzerman's retirement signifies more than just the end of a great hockey career and the end of a great captaincy . . . it's the end of a 25 year run of athletes in our four major sports (Trammell, Whitaker, Barry Sanders, Dumars, and now Stevie Y) that stayed out of trouble, played the game at a high level, and most of all were loyal to their city. It will be a while before we see any like them again. We were truly blessed . . . thanks guys. >>




    Sanders stayed with the Lions his whole career but I haven't heard many people singing his praises since he left.

    The circumstances of his leaving did not endear him to many Lions fans. He was booed several years ago when he
    showed up at a Pistons game and was announced to the crowd.
  • xbaggypantsxbaggypants Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭
    By Far, my all-time fav! I'm wearing my Yzerman jersey today in tribute to him.
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  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭
    Yzerman symbolizes the type of athlete we all complain no longer exists: loyal, hardworking, and team-oriented. I'm not sure someone like Yzerman can exist anymore. In the leanest of years, the Red Wings didn't trade him and he didn't demand a trade to a "winner". He shows that perseverance pays and not every reward is immediate. (Remember, he didn't win his first Cup until 1997.) If anything, Yzerman will appreciate (and will have perhaps better EARNED) his Stanley Cups much more than any rent-a-player.

    I don't want to get too sentimental here but Yzerman has always been an inspiration to me since I started following and collecting him in 1991. Hockey, though it has a reputation for having more "humble" athletes, will have to wait a long time for a player like Yzerman. (There are candidates, though.)

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  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭✭
    <<The circumstances of his leaving did not endear him to many Lions fans.>>

    No argument from me on that one. I've always cut Sanders a bit of slack only because of the fact that it was the Lions. Most athletes would have left the team or drank themselves into oblivion if they were in Barry's situation. Sanders simply said "no mas" at an inopportune time. But I do agree he could have handled it better.

    At one point, Isiah Thomas would have been on the list as well, but his post retirement activities have tarnished him somewhat, at least in my mind.
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