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Yzerman Does The Right Thing

by Paul on 07/02/09 at 05:37 PM ET
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from Scott Burnside of ESPN,

One of the most curious invitees for the Canadian Olympic orientation camp is a player who doesn’t even know if he’s going to put on the blades at all this year: Joe Sakic.

But it is a measure of the respect for Sakic’s pedigree, and the integrity of Canadian Olympic executive director Steve Yzerman and Hockey Canada, that the veteran forward was extended an invitation, even though a decision on whether he will retire or not has not yet been made public.

Yzerman said he recently called Sakic and, without prying about his decision, told him he wanted Sakic at camp.

continued (story is in the left sidebar), the featured story is about the players selected to the Team Canada Orientation Camp.

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From the article:

That’s why the Canadian orientation camp includes players like Daniel Cleary, Milan Lucic, Derek Roy, Francois Beauchemin, Stephane Robidas and Patrick Sharp. Asked about a number of those players, Yzerman said they weren’t interested in having four lines with the same type of player.

Cleary, for instance, can play all three forward positions and, during the past couple of years, showed he is as comfortable playing on the top line with skilled players as he is playing a checking role on a third line, not to mention working on both the power play and penalty kill.

“He’s a versatile guy that had a very, very good playoff,” Yzerman said of Cleary, who, with Detroit, won a Cup in 2007-08 and lost to Pittsburgh in the Cup finals last month.

Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 07/02/09 at 09:07 PM ET

Great info HTT.

Things like this really reinforce my belief that Stevie Y is going to be as great a hockey mind off the ice as he was on it.

It would be awesome to see him sent to the HoF as a builder someday in the future.

Posted by thethirdcoast from Rottenchester on 07/02/09 at 10:59 PM ET

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