Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Posted by Guilherme from Brazsil on 04/19/10 at 11:19 PM ET

That will be emotionally devastating to the point that I ain’t sure I will be able to recover.

Posted by mike from austin on 04/19/10 at 11:26 PM ET

The Steve Yzerman part of me wants to shake the mans hand and wish him good luck, god knows he deserves all of the success he has earned and will earn.  The Red Wings fan in me just threw up a little in my mouth.

Posted by AxeMaster9 on 04/19/10 at 11:32 PM ET

Please be in the Eastern conference. Please be in the Eastern conference. Please be in the Eastern conference.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 04/19/10 at 11:51 PM ET

New York Islanders please. He can go to the team of his childhood idol, Brian Trottier.

Posted by Osrt on 04/19/10 at 11:59 PM ET

Shut up shut up shut up!

If I can’t hear it, it’s not true!

Posted by Garth on 04/20/10 at 12:00 AM ET

But…he can return after Holland retires with experience and…hopefully…success.  I think it’ll be good for him, we all know he’ll eventually return.

Posted by Sullyosis from A hateful lair in Post Apocalyptic US (or Arizona) on 04/20/10 at 12:34 AM ET

I thought Holland said he was retiring when Lidstrom retired.  Unfortunately I do think Yzerman would have to go somewhere else even if Holland retires soon if he wants to be a GM.  It seems like Jim Nill has been hanging around because he knows he’s next in line.

Posted by snowboarderx on 04/20/10 at 01:17 AM ET

Really, Paul? You had to throw this our way after that devastating shitshow of a performance on Sunday? That’s just dangerous. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go drink until I can’t feel feelings anymore.

Posted by CaptNorris5 from The Winged Wheel, stuck in Chicago on 04/20/10 at 01:29 AM ET

Well, the article also said that Stevie is probably staying for now…

Posted by Andy from FightNight on 04/20/10 at 05:43 AM ET

Ottawa.

Posted by w2j2 on 04/20/10 at 06:17 AM ET

Seriously, Detroit has Holland, Nill, and Yzerman in their front office, so they have three competent (assuming Yzerman really is ready to run a team on his own) GMs in one organization. Some teams don’t even have ONE competent GM in their front office, so the Red Wings have been very lucky.

In Yzerman’s favor is the fact that he is young, likes where he is, and has a position as long as he wants it. He has no desperate need for another job, so he can pick and choose. If he were desperate for a job then he’d jump at anything no matter how much of a circus the organization was. Since he can bide his time, he can wait until a position opens up where he will have a stable ownership, relatively non-dysfunctional management, some quality players, a minor-league system that is capable of drafting and developing good youngsters, and a place where he and his family will be happy.

He can wait until a spot is open where he will have an opportunity to succeed as a GM instead of having to fight against high odds of failure. It’s a tough enough job to do well in as it is; no need for him to try to succeed with additional obstacles.

He probably will leave to get the opportunity to run his own team but it won’t be right away. And I’ll be sad to see him leave, but excited to see him get such an opportunity and hopeful that he will do very very well.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 04/20/10 at 06:21 AM ET

Ottawa.

Posted by w2j2 on 04/20/10 at 06:17 AM ET

That’s what I’m thinking, too, and I’d like to see him there as well.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 04/20/10 at 06:22 AM ET

Hudler may be coming back to Detorit because his Russian employer is going bankrupt:
http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2010/04/estranged_red_wings_forward_ji_6.html

Posted by w2j2 on 04/20/10 at 06:23 AM ET

As everyone knows, Yzerman grew up in Nepean, (an Ottawa subrub) and played Junior A for the Nepean Raiders and Major Junior for the Peterborough Petes.

Posted by w2j2 on 04/20/10 at 06:54 AM ET

so Kenny is going into retierment?

Posted by edillac from isolation on 04/20/10 at 07:09 AM ET

When they start singing together it’s probably time to break them up.

Posted by Moq from Denmark on 04/20/10 at 08:46 AM ET

When they start singing together it’s probably time to break them up.

Hey, they’d make a damn good barbershop quartet.

Posted by Nate A from Detroit-ish on 04/20/10 at 10:12 AM ET

Is he really in any hurry to leave.  Don’t forget leaving would also mean moving his family and he has young children in school so that will play a role in his decision making.

I don’t see him in any rush to leave the team as he is happy in the position he is in, plus it allows him to be involved in team Canada opportunties as well.

It would be tough seeing him with another organization if/when he goes, lets just hope he isn’t like Bowman and jumps to one of our closests rivals (unless he plans to sabatoge from within)

Posted by Colwen on 04/20/10 at 10:28 AM ET