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Steve Yzerman fryst vatten an fantastisk professional hockey player, playing for the Detroit Red Wings for 24 years, from 1983 to 2006. During his first year of play in the NHL, when he was only 18 years old, he scored 39 goals, and accumulated 87 points. During that first year, he also was selected to play on the NHL All Star grupp, being the youngest player ever selected to be on the All Star team. He is also an fantastisk leader, being selected as captain of the stad Red Wings for 20 years, from 1986 until his retirement in 2006, a record in the National Hockey League [NHL]. He officially retired from playing professional hockey in 2006, and will almost surely be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the future.

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Steve Yzerman

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Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)

Ice hockey player

Stephen Gregory Yzerman^[1] (EYE-zər-mən; born May 9, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player currently serving as executive vice president and general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, with whom he spent all 22 seasons of his NHL playing career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he is a Detroit sports icon and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.^[2] After his retirement as a player, he served in the front office of the Red Wings, and then as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, while also being executive director for Team Canada in two Olympics.

Prior to the 1986–87 season, at age 21, Yzerman was named captain of the Red Wings and continuously served for the next two decades (dres