Hockey roundup: Yzerman ranked eighth best CHL player; PWHL to name award finalists
Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman was ranked No. 8 on the CHL’s Top 50 Players of the Last 50 Years list.
Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman was ranked No. 8 on the CHL’s Top 50 Players of the Last 50 Years list, which was released on Thursday as part of the CHL’s 50th anniversary season. Yzerman, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and three-time Stanley Cup champion as a player with the Red Wings with a fourth championship as vice president and alternate governor, was of the most accomplished players in CHL history with the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League.
Selected fourth overall by the Petes in the first round of the 1981 OHL Draft, Yzerman recorded 155 points — 63 goals and 92 assists — in 114 regular-season games from 1981-83. As a rookie in 1981-82, Yzerman posted 64 points (21 goals and 43 assists) in 58 regular-season games before adding one assist in six playoff contests. The following season, he delivered the best campaign of his OHL career, registering 91 points (42 goals and 49 assists) in 56 regular-season games, along with five points in four playoff games.
Following his two-year OHL career, Yzerman was selected fourth overall by the Red Wings in the 1983 NHL Draft. He spent his entire 22-season NHL playing career with Detroit from 1983-2006. In 1,514 NHL regular-season games, Yzerman recorded 1,755 points — 692 goals and 1,063 assists — and ranks eighth all-time in NHL scoring.
He remains the longest-serving captain in NHL history, having worn the “C” for Detroit for 19 seasons. The CHL countdown recognizes the greatest players from the Western Hockey League (WHL), Ontario Hockey League (OHL), and Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) since 1975-76. PWHL to announce awards finalists One day after the PWHL awarded an expansion franchise to Detroit , the league announced that the awards finalists will be released from May 19-27.