OT: Does Steve Yzerman leave Detroit to become a GM?
Does anyone think that Steve Yzerman will bolt the Red Wings to become a GM after this season given his success with Team Canada? I hope not, and the best possible scenario would be for Ken Holland to become team President (Like Jimmy D) and let Stevie Y take over as GM. My sense is that Jim Nill will be gone after next year, as he will definitely get a shot to finally land a well-overdue GM gig.
If Yzerman leaves, I would think that Ottawa would be a good landing spot given his junior days in Napean.
Can't wait to see Yzerman at the game Friday
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Although it would be sad if He left, I highly doubt Ken Holland would change positions given his success rate. If Yzerman wants to leave to become a GM then good for him. He wouldn't lose any of my respect.
What do you really do as the GM of Canada? Make a couple of decisions about the end of the roster and name a coach (his own)? I guess he didn't screw it up and if he were hired in Canada it's positive PR, but the sample size is so small to make a hire based on that. On Jim Nill I am pretty sure he has been offered GM jobs before but the Wings pay him enough so that he will wait for the right offer.
IMO Ken Holland is the best GM in all of hockey. His talents are best suited for a GM position. Even if there was more money to be made as the president (i don't know) Ilitch would prefer Holland stay as GM and I'm sure he would compensate him generously. Yzerman will make a great GM. It will be a sad day for me when he leaves to become a GM. But right now the Wings have the best GM (imo) and I do not think Ken is going anywhere soon.
The Wings under Illich have had great success for many different reasons one is that he values his team management. All have been well treated and have stayed with Detroit for a long time, I am not so sure that any of them will leave anytime soon. They all have been working together very well and are compensated decently. I would bet one retires before they would go to another team. Hope Stevie Y doesn't ever work for any team other than the Red Wings.
This guy is pure class and has always handled himself like such a gentleman.
As much as we talk about what a Michigan Man is, Yzerman is a Red Wing. It's harder and harder to find someone that plays out their entire career with one team. I feel that he is too close to the organization to leave.
But while I hope that he stays with the Red Wings and becomes The GM someday, when he's ready to become a GM that opportunity might be with another team, as I don't see Ken Holland going anywhere.
The selfish part of me wants him to stay in Detroit forever. However he's probably slated to be offered a GM job this summer given his recent success of putting together the gold medal winning Canadian men's hockey team. If it's the right situation, I think he should take it, he deserves it.
Steve Yzerman was probably my hero growing up. Really though, how hard would it be to put together the Canadian Olympic team? Honestly. I love the guy though.
how hard would it be to put together the Canadian Olympic team?Harder than you think, apparently. The problem isn't finding 22 (24?) people for the team. It's cutting down to that number that's the hard part.
But there's such a talent pool to choose from in the first place that it'd almost be impossible to screw up. If they had lost, Yzerman would have been the last guy to blame.
Knowing Steve Yzerman he does not let success get to his head and he knows he's on track to be GM for one of the top franchises in all sports. There's no need for him to gain experience as a head GM somewhere else because he is learning on the job in Detroit. Like Wesq said, putting together Team Canada and a pro team are two very different things.
But this is a very interesting question I haven't though of. Thanks.
I don't know, but do not assume that just because he was a great player/captain, he'd make a great GM, too. The skills required are completely different. (I don't make that much of his job as head Canada guy, either; that's just basically picking an All-Star team.) Who knows if he has an eye for scouting talent, or if he can be a tough negotiator, for instance?
While being GM of gold-winning Team Canada is a good mark on his résumé and doesn't mean that he's ready to take on a full-time NHL GM position, I have to disagree with aquaman & jmblue on the difficulty. I think it is a bit difficult to create a team and not just have a bunch of all-stars.
Different sport, but there have been US men's basketball "teams" that were just bunches of NBA all-stars that failed to win gold.