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The Valenti Show

Steve Yzerman understands the criticism that comes with his position

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Steve Yzerman joins us to talk about the organization's centennial celebration, the team's hot start to the season, how young players are helping the vets, and when he'll know the rebuild is over

Transcript

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0:00.0

My, how times have changed.

0:02.2

We've got people clamoring to talk Pistons basketball. We'll get to that later in the hour. Red Wings off to a hot start, five in one this season. And I don't know if you've heard, they're celebrating a century of Red Wings hockey. They've got their fan fest event coming up, November 6 through the 9th, Motor City Casino Hotel, meet and mingle with over 50 Red Wings Legends, Hall of Famers. We're talking Sergey Federoff, Nick Lidstrom, Steve Iserman, who's set to join us here in a second. Tickets are going fast. Detroitredwings.com slash fan fest today. Steve, good morning. It's going to be nice to get everybody back into town. Yeah, it always is good to see former teammates.

0:39.9

A lot of our guys live in Europe, the Swedes, and obviously the Russians.

0:44.3

So I'm really looking forward to the weekend.

0:47.2

Who's the guy that maybe you played with that you haven't seen in the longest time?

0:51.6

Maybe you've talked to him, but you just haven't seen them in person.

0:54.8

Well, Sergey, it's been a while, you know, with the war in Russia and limitations on our ability

1:00.7

to get over there, used to run into him at the World Championships every spring.

1:05.9

I look forward to seeing him. I'm not sure if Igor can make it or not. I'd probably not.

1:09.8

He's coaching.

1:18.3

But we'll get a chance to see Sergey and then see him again when we retire his jersey in January.

1:23.1

I'm going to put you on the spot. Steve Eiserman's starting five of all-time Red Wings,

1:24.8

100 years to pick from. who would you go with?

1:28.9

Geez.

1:32.8

Well, Gordy, obviously, on the wing, that would be one.

1:42.1

Senator, Pavel, but you couldn't be wrong with any of the choices.

1:44.7

Other winger,

1:48.2

Ted Lindsay.

1:56.1

On the back end, it would be Nick Lidstrom, Red Kelly,

1:59.8

and in net Terry Sanchuk. All right.

2:01.6

I'm sure people will debate that endlessly.

2:03.6

A lot of names to choose from.

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