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Before the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 42 years and before Steve Yzerman ended his 14-year drought without winning the Cup, the longtime captain, NHL Hall of Famer and current general manager said it would've been "a long life" if he hadn't accomplished his goal.
Yzerman made the comment on a Facebook Live interview on Wednesday with color analysts Mickey Redmond and Darren Pang and play-by-play announcer Ken Daniels preceding Fox Sports Detroit's rebroadcast of the Red Wings' Stanley Cup-clinching Game 4 victory against the Philadelphia Flyers at Joe Louis Arena in 1997.