Zitat des Tages von Steve Yzerman:
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.
And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.
I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.
I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.
I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.
It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.
When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.
It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.
I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.
Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.
I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.
Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.
As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road.
We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.
I don't take anything for granted.
When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.
I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.