Stevie Y called it a career today at the age of 41. In this age of free agency, it's unusual for any pro athlete to spend his entire career with the same team. If ever a player deserved to wear the "C" on his sweater, it was this guy. He was a credit to the game and was synonymous with the word "class" right from the time he joined the Red Wings. Sadly, that's a word that can be applied to fewer and fewer professional athletes nowadays. The ratio of classy guys to jerks in the NHL just took a turn for the worse today.
Steve Yzerman retires
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Yzerman is a great guy and a hell of a player. Too bad he's decided to call it quits. Mind you at 41 years old, and the career he has had, I'm sure he is sitting with a nice fat bank account. He did a lot of work with kids and the Children's Hospital in Detroit. I think it was Yzerman who stayed behind after the game for an hour in Calgary to sign autographs and hang out with the kids. Pretty cool for a guy to do that in a city where his team is playing the home team. Not too many players like that anymore.JustAGuy said:
