Gniwder
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I'm question the point of his post. What's it to you, are you playing moderator?What is the point of this post?
I'm question the point of his post. What's it to you, are you playing moderator?What is the point of this post?
I'm question the point of his post. What's it to you, are you playing moderator?
Steve YzermanNot sure what you're getting at, and I don't care for your opinion. Everyone expects Larkin to be the next captain so there will be comparisons made, so you can go fly a kite. (If we met in person, I'd be using stronger words. Considering the fact that I was kidding around, your tone is much unappreciated.)
Paul Stewart
... dude made up stuff to help sell his book. It's especially funny that he uses Chelios as an example of someone who didn't berate officials.
That being said, Stevie definitely was ornery with refs later in his career. The only part of that narrative I take issue with is when people claim he was a whiner early in his career. He simply wasn't.
Don't compare Yzerman to Larkin in any capacity....
Yzerman was seen as having maturity/attitude problems early in his career. He’d have been roasted if HFB existed back then. He matured and became the legendary leader he’s known as today. It was a very different story when he was a young NHL player.
By who?Yzerman was seen as having maturity/attitude problems early in his career. He’d have been roasted if HFB existed back then. He matured and became the legendary leader he’s known as today. It was a very different story when he was a young NHL player.
He made a commercial for Ford recently. Didn’t use an agent. Just went in, heard the offer, and accepted it. (“Well, it’s not like I’d won any Oscars,” Yzerman says. “I couldn’t really demand anything.”
On Monday he eclipsed a Detroit hockey record held by the great Gordie Howe — most consecutive games with at least one goal. Yzerman is at nine and counting.
I ask whether he has ever met Howe.
“A couple of times,” he says. “He’ll come over and say hi.”
“Couldn’t you just say hello first?”
His eyes bulge.
“No way! I would never just go up to Gordie Howe out of the blue.”
“Why not?”
“Because he’s Gordie Howe. What am I gonna say, ‘Hey, Gordie. How’s it goin’?’ ”
“Well, don’t you think you’ve reached that point?”
He shakes his head.
“I’ll never reach that point.”
“There’s no comparison between Wayne Gretzky and me,” Yzerman says, sitting in his West Bloomfield apartment Wednesday afternoon, his voice, as always, soft and unassuming. “He’s done it all. Won Stanley Cups, won scoring championships. . . . These people who compare us, or say he and Mario and I are 1-2-3, it’s so unfair to guys like Mark Messier, Dale Hawerchuk, Ray Bourque. You can’t compare. . .
“And Gordie Howe? No way. I was looking at some of his records the other day. He’s got marks that will last forever. He played with a dynasty. If we ever become a dynasty, a lot of other guys will be breaking records, too.”
The other night on WLLZ-FM, hockey analyst Don Cherry rated Yzerman up there with Gretzky and Lemieux in talent. “But you know,” he added, “if you ask players around the league, Yzerman is the one they’d most like to sit and have beer with. He’s the most regular guy of the three.”
And then there is this story. I heard it from Mary Schroeder, a photographer for our newspaper, who sits near the penalty box at Joe Louis Arena. Whenever Yzerman gets called for a penalty, he enters the box, cursing like a sailor.
Then he sees her.
“Sorry, Mary,” he always says.
And he sits down.
His work ethic back then was the stuff of legend, says Giacobbi, such that even players on opposing teams were hearing stories of the gruelling off-ice hours the young phenom was logging.
“I remember there was one game … I gave up just the worst goal in the world,” Pang recalls of their time with the Raiders. “It was bad. It was a bad goal. But this will tell you about Steve. He comes back — and he’s 15, and I’m 16, we’re the underage guys — he comes back to the net, hits my pads, and he says, ‘We’re going to get that one back. Now, let’s go.’ One of those kinds of things — he doesn’t say a lot but he kind of has that clenched jaw.
“[Then] he gets the faceoff win, spins around, goes down, scores a magnificent goal, comes right back and he says, ‘Let’s go.’”
To be honest, every time Paul Stewart reffed for the Wings, I knew he would try to screw them over. Paul Stewart is one of those officials who always wanted to make the games about him. I was glad when he left the league. Now they just need to get rid of O'Halloran. They are both ********s.
This just in...Water is wet - sitting too long in direct sunlight may cause sunburn - and a veteran NHL player who happens to wear the 'C' for his team was deemed 'disrespectful' by Paul Stewart who's trying to sell his book.Ex-NHL referee: Steve Yzerman was 'disrespectful'
Interesting read. I actually remember the game against Nashville they reference in the article. There’s a clip of it on YouTube. I don’t have many memories of Yzerman being a prick to officials except one instance in his last season while taking a faceoff. The linesman kicked him out of the circle, Stevie stayed in the ready position and you could clearly read his lips saying, “drop the f***ing puck” before finally leaving the circle lol.