Per Toronto Sun:
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Steve Yzerman doesn't like to talk much about his future ambitions but he had hoped that if the Chicago Blackhawks were going to change general managers, he would be strongly considered.
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Per Toronto Sun:
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Steve Yzerman doesn't like to talk much about his future ambitions but he had hoped that if the Chicago Blackhawks were going to change general managers, he would be strongly considered.
Our poster boy next to Gordie considering being part of the Blackhawks organization... If the wings were to allow that to happen, that would rank right up there with the US selling Gm to China...
We have a pretty good GM. If Yzerman wants to do that, he better go elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by Fool
Could he really get that job right now? He hasn't been an assistant very long.
I also think he should go to a non-rival.
Gretzky probably would have liked to be GM in Edmonton, but had to go to Phoenix. I doubt they hold that against him in Canada.
Gretzky didn't spend his whole career in Edmonton. He moved to LA for a while then had that terrible spell in New York. Yzerman is a Red Wing all the way through. As for experience, I think he's playing on his time as Team Canada GM, not just his experience running the Red Wings. Quite often, when an ex-player gets a GM position, he didn't get a ton of seasoning as an assistant GM first. Examples: Brett Hull, Garth Snow, Wayne Gretzky
I wonder if he wants to work for the Bruins...
It'd make for a nice coming home hire a few years down the road.
He's one of the few guys in any major sport that just can't do that IMO. At least not a rival. If he went to some far away team that didn't exist 20 years ago that's one thing and I could understand him trying to learn the ropes of executive NHL jobs by doing so. Hawks? no