Yzerman played for the Wings from 1983-2006, winning three Stanley Cups as captain. Elissa Robinson/DFP, Wochit
Welcome back home, Captain.
Steve Yzerman will named the Red Wings general manager at a 3 p.m. news conference.
This is an absolute home run. It’s the perfect hire, at the perfect time. This has sent Wings fans into a Good Friday stupor of giddiness. They remember Yzerman as The Captain. The hero holding up the Cup. A favorite son coming home.
But that is not what makes this such a perfect hire.
Yzerman is no longer the Captain.