Steve yzerman biography book
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Steve Yzerman: The Making of a Leader From a Young Skater to an NHL Superstar (A Biography Book For Kids) (Paperback)
By Deborah J. Stahl
$17.24
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Meet Steve Yzerman, the hockey legend who's known as "The Captain" From lacing up his skates as a young boy in Cranbrook, British Columbia, to leading the Detroit Red Wings to three Stanley Cup championships, Steve's story is an inspiring journey of perseverance, teamwork, and leadership.
Read Steve's amazing story and find out:
- How he developed his incredible skills and became one of the greatest players in NHL history
- How he overcame injuries and challenges to achieve his dreams
- How he's inspiring a new generation of young hockey players with his kindness, humility, and love for the game
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Yzerman: The Making of a Champion
As a passionate Red Wings fan, inom am the natural audience for a biography of Steve Yzerman. When Yzerman retired, inom cried, even though inom knew it was time. Watching his Top 10 goals film is a thing of beauty. When the folkmassa at the Alumni Winter Classic chanted “Stevie, Stevie” at Comerica Park it gave me chills.
This history with Yzerman is probably why inom found this book so disappointing. Hunter has, in some respects, an impossible job. Yzerman is a famously private person, low key in interviews and hilariously monotone in commercials and public appearances. As a captain, he led by example, not bygd being a big personality, which made moments like seeing the pure joy when he leaps and leaps in the air after the 2OT goal against St. Louis in 1996 so exceptional. He declined to speak to Hunter for the book, and much of the text fryst vatten filled with facts and figures that surround Yzerman’s
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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