Steve Yzerman Retirement Ceremony Part 8(Final Part)

#19 The Final Part of the ceremoney before the Ducks game on January 2nd 2007.

[@xXxXpz]

This should be the training video on how to act with class and integrity. No one person is more important than all of us. There are not enough guys like this in any of our professional sports.

[@iatamata]

I am also a Hawks fan, however Steve Yzerman truly represents professional athletes at their best. Total Class.

[@LBjim]

That is so well said, you know when I'm a little down on myself, I watch this ceremony and it always brings a smile to my face becouse Stevie Y is a Godsend to the sport of hockey and to life in general..He IS the classiest player of any sport for all-time. I wish my kids grow up to be like him..PURE CLASS, you Red Wing fans were so lucky man.....

[@TheAsianPianist]

wow Stevie spends his WHOLE speech thanking and appreciating everyone else, he really is the greatest thing to ever happen to the Detroit Red Wings and the city of Detroit. Mr. Classy! he's a legend as a player, a human, a captain, and will soon be as a GM!

[@LBjim]

Steve Yzerman is the classiest man on earth. It was a HONOR watching him play. He displayed leadership and sportmanship that in my time was a rare thing to have with all of these egomaniac athletes. He was never about himself, he was about team. That is why he is praised and The cornerstone during his playing days with the Wings..PURE CLASS that Stevie Y.....God Bless Stevie Y and his family...

[@theproducerspart2]

GOD BLESS YOU STEVIE Y! Thank you for all of the life lasting memories here in Detroit!!! #19 FOREVER!!!

[@goblue424]

I looked up the word "class" in the dictionary......there was a picture of Steve Yzerman.

[@latinahoney123]

could their be a greater human being out there like seriously? Stevie is awesome!

[@ticklesko]

Just watched the video again (since when it happened) and cried again like a little girl. I miss Stevie. He was so amazing. People from other cities just don't understand what he meant to Wings fans.

[@meltz911]

The Captain, true class.

[@Dremooa]

I miss Stevie Y. :(

[@yomynameisstewy]

Wow what an amazing player, I miss being young and watching him play hockey ^_^

[@bevil4aday]

I worked the night this happened. Didn't have a DVR and the VHS was well outdated and unable to record for me. 4 yrs later this lifetime Red Wing fan (who's first ever NHL experience was watching Bobby Orr skate for the Blackhawks in Olympia) finally took the time to watch this. Thank you so much for posting.

[@magicman13]

For a franchise drenched in greatness, Stevie will always stand out as my favorite. His calm, powerful leadership and his amazing skill will go down in NHL history. There wasn't a greater moment in my history as a Red Wings fan than seeing him score "the goal." I think everyone knows what I'm talking about.

[@cqckid]

true champion and perfect role model. for someone who's accomplished so much over their career, it's amazing how incredibly humble he is!

[@sdmf5150]

Steve is the absolute greatest, one of the most talented players of all time and a great human being. So humble and so great.

[@Darmesis]

Thanks, smurphman, for posting these 8 vids of "The Captain" and the wonderful ceremony for him. He deserved this and more for being the greatest leader in hockey history. GO WINGS!

[@99Bananas007]

i was at this game...wow i don't think there was a dry eye in the house

[@dazmondo69]

such a great ceremony. detroit is a class act organization. and this is coming from a canucks fan. cheers to you stevie. one of the greatest.

[@WOLFENCT]

One of the best players to ever lace em up! Thanks for everything Stevie Y. The greatest captain of all time in any sport, period!

[@haatsyuu]

Simply the greatest captain the world sports has ever seen.

[@RustyVanProductions]

You have to love Steve Yzerman. Great player, class act, and a champion all the way.

[@pdtpuck]

Also pretty telling is that he gets the most choked up when he thanked the fans. Glad I got to see him play "in person!" All I get of Howe, Lindsay, Abel, etc is old grainy black & white film!

[@imadvi82]

Well said dazmondo69! I'm a Hawks fan but Stevie was a terror to the Norris division for years and you had to respect him. One of the greatest? Yes. Class orginazation? Yes. I miss watching him play.

[@streetcarjay]

Stevie "Y" The Architect of the 2010 Canadian Men's and Women's Olympic Gold Medal winning hockey teams.

[@POWAHOUSEVOS]

I love this. Couldn't possibly agree more.

[@cutie4u61288]

I will always love him and respect him, their are soo many good hockey players but he is just the best, I miss himmmmm :(

[@Tstuart22]

im a devils fan but Yzerman is the classiest captain in the history of the nhl and one of the greatest players ever

[@1233pc]

out of every sport, stevie Y's the best example of a 'professional' athlete. he never got arrested, never cheated on his wife, never took steroids, never got caught up in any affairs at strip clubs, never intentionally tried to hurt anybody. he improved his game by unselfishly becoming more defensive and scoring fewer goals. he deferred some of his salary to bring in brett hull. and he courageously played and played well with a bad knee his last few years

[@DGolden]

I shed a single man tear on the day they hung his jersey up.

[@Grossdeutschland]

Wow!!!! thank you very much for post this video !!!!!!!!!very great my friend for wings fan!!!!!!!

[@Zykomazika]

you're missed on the ice, stevie y. the most amazing player i've ever watched play.

[@jackobite68]

miss u Silk

[@RoestiF]

There's no one, which is a better player of friend(ok, I don't know how he really is, but i think the others don't lie) as Steve Yzerman. This man has shown us all, that icehockey is more than only a sport. It's a life. And I have to say, since 1997, I'm a fan of DRW, 'cause earlier I didn't know, which Team plays in America(I'm Swiss). My First Team are the DRW, and it will be the last, no other team can change my opinion to this team,or my opinion to the best player on the world,Steve Yzerman.

[@babybluesnowden]

Mario Lemieux , guy lafleur, jean belliveau, rocket richard, mike bossy, brett hull, bobby orr, bobby hull, glen hall, gordie howe!! just some other legends

[@circushungaricus]

he is the best!

[@HairsprayQueen1990]

Well said.

[@Grossdeutschland]

great great great !!!!!!

[@JEFFREY72HOLMES]

one more year!

[@conservativeco]

He never once congradulated himself. Compare this form of sportsmanship and gentlemenly conduct to the "leaders" today (yes, I'm hinting at Cindy Criesby who cries or crosschecks Zetterburg when he looses). I demand the NHL do one of the following; 1) Rename the Lady Byng trophy for sportsmanship in Yzerman's honor 2) Rename the Mark Messiah Leadership Reaward the Steve Yzerman Leadership Reward

[@jacobjoseph3514]

what a class act...i really appreciate what he said about redwings nation, for all of us who have been transplanted from detroit and have to put up with abuse, and beer being poured on you, and stuff being thrown at you... he knows that once youre a wing fan, youre always a wing fan. he will always be the captain

[@adamh36]

Can't disagree at all with this list. Would like to add #9 MIN/DAL Mike Modano

[@P0kets]

he is so classy he should be president,tho he is canadian priminister

[@mcnallyrd3]

@conservativeco i agree 100%

[@uchihaitachi3130]

Lidstrom ceremony will be next =(

[@dreforsleep]

lion among sheep.

[@WoodyAllenNY]

I only gave it a thumbs down because it's a good list but only in the last what.....15-20 years? Richard, Howe, Orr, T. Esposito, P. Esposito, Hull, Mikita, Keon, Beliveau, Lafleur, Mahovolich, Sittler, Lindsay, Sawchuck, Hall, Worsley, Gillies, Potvin, Bossy, Trottier... if it's greatest in YOUR LIFETIME...then you obviously forgot Modano, Ciccarelli, Sakic, Forsberg, Hull, Jagr, Ovechkin, Coffey, LEMIEUX.... just sayin...

[@rygu79]

Mark Messier wasn't even the 2nd best captain in history, letalone in Steve Yzerman's league as one.

[@CBielski87]

Steve Yzerman sucks!!! ...nah just kidding, can you imagine? GO WINGS!