While four teams are still battling to win the Stanley Cup, Steve Yzerman is simply hoping he can soon get his team back on the ice.
The Red Wings’ general manager has enjoyed watching playoff hockey as the NHL created a pair of bubbles when its season resumed after being shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s not what’s primarily on his mind these days.
As one of the league’s seven teams that didn’t make the cut when the season was restarted, the Wings haven’t been on the ice together since early March. That fact, alone, has Yzerman feeling good about the idea of getting back perhaps a bit sooner than many of the playoff teams.