No one will ever know what’s going on in Yzerman’s head…like seriously it’s impossible. In this case especially, we have no idea if it was ever the plan to becomes the GM od Detroit, maybe it was to someday step into that role and or maybe it was never the plan at all to return, maybe it was meant to happened but then he fell in love with Tampa and wants to stay here until he retires, we have no idea and can only speculate. We do know that Yzerman is a very diplomatic guy; he’s not going to say anything that doesn’t make it sounds like being a GM of their team is a dream job because I’m sure both places means a lot to him, Detroit as a player and Tampa as a GM and both have allowed him to do something that he loves.
Besides, I have my doubt that he would sign guys like Stamkos and Hedman to 8-year contract and draft guys like Kucherov and Drouin and not want to at least see some of the result of his decisions as well as everything else he’s done over the years to get the team where they are, like he’s a competitive guy and I can’t see him wanting to hand of guys like that to someone else to reap the benefits until he have given it his best shot with it.