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Originally Posted by Hackey
Actually Yzerman said that St Louis had talked to him about about being traded as soon as he became GM. Sounds like for 4 years there was discussion about it. When he finally left he told fans it was for family reasons. Yzerman himself said the Olympics wasn't the reason he left. Sounds like he just really wanted to be closer to his family and actually stuck it out in Tampa for several years even though he didn't want too.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...ticle17339317/ |
The final Olympic team was chosen in January 2014. He asked for a trade after that. The previous time, in 2010, he was also left off and Yzerman was involved, but Yzerman wasn't the Tampa GM then.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/lightn...c-snub/2167047
http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/...-picks-reports