[panoo]

Bob McKenzie
1/25/2007 7:47:30 PM

It is not yet official and probably won't be for another week or two, but it looks like Steve Yzerman will be the general manager of Team Canada at the 2007 World Championship in Russia.

The recently-retired superstar, who is now a vice-president with the Detroit Red Wings, has had several conversations about the job with Hockey Canada President Bob Nicholson. Hockey Canada wants Yzerman to do it. Yzerman, by all accounts, is extremely keen and when he returns from a ski vacation in Colorado, he and Nicholson are expected to nail down the final details and make it official.

Yzerman is said to be very excited to try his hand at managing in a hands-on role and Hockey Canada likes the idea of bringing another Canadian hockey icon into its fold, just as it did when it named Wayne Gretzky the executive director of the 2002 Olympic team.

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[datsyukdangler1]

That's cool. I hope this is so. Yzerman is awesome. I always thought that he would be a good General Manager, or even a coach someday, maybe?

 

[imported_shookem]

For sure. I'd love to see Steve Y running the team next time around. I think it'd be good for hockey Canada too. He just seems like such a wise guy.

 

[BE-LEAF-ABLE]

Ditto.

I hope this move it made. Yzerman seems to have good knowledge of Hockey players around the League, so I'd like to see how he handles things when putting together the National team for Canada.