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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tabe" data-source="post: 52811" data-attributes="member: 342">I don't have heroes - but Yzerman is one for me.  To me, he was the epitome of the perfect athlete.  A rugged warrior (remember his scrap with Kevin Maguire???), an elite skill player (155 pts and player of the year in 1989), a fearless leader (longest-running captain in NHL history), a guy who sacrificed health and individual results for team wins, and a guy who stayed with one franchise for his entire career.  I loved Barry Sanders and would have loved to see him win a title but he bailed on the Lions (intentionally screwing them by retiring at the start of training camp) and it took me years to forgive him.  I actually got to meet Wayne Gretzky last year at a baseball game here in Spokane.  I was like a kid in a candy store, just an incredible thrill for me.  And that's nothing compared to what it would be like for me to meet Yzerman.All that said, the memory of that first Cup is tarnished for me.  The limo crash afterward that crippled Konstantinov takes a lot of the shine off that Cup.  The three that came after are much sweeter.Tabe</blockquote>

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