Steve Yzerman has a surprising revelation about living in metro Detroit as he returns home to be general manager of the Red Wings. Filmed April 19, 2019 in Detroit. Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press
Admit it. You were smiling. Steve Yzerman was back. Storm clouds parted. Rainbows appeared. The Stanley Cup posters in your basement were vibrating. Somewhere, the band who did “Hey, Hey, Hockeytown!” was tuning up.
Steve Yzerman will run the Detroit Red Wings. It’s like Jon Snow in charge of the North. Richie Cunningham taking over Al’s Diner. There was a feel-good aura to this move that spread through the Twitter universe, came down through the red-lighted roof of Little Caesars Arena, and landed in the ground level media room Friday afternoon, where executives, the press, even former teammates like Darren McCarty, Kris Draper, Dino Ciccarelli and Hank Zetterberg, all gathered in nodding approval.