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Stephen Gregory Yzerman IPA (born May 9, 1965, in Cranbrook, British
Columbia, Canada) is a retired Canadian American professional hockey player
who played his entire National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red
Wings. Yzerman led the Wings to three Stanley Cup championships (1997,
1998 and 2002; Yzerman also won a 4th Stanley Cup as the Red Wings Vice
President of Operations in 2007-08). Prior to the 1986-87 season
at the age of 21, Yzerman was named captain of the Red Wings and continuously
served as captain until his retirement two decades later. Yzerman
retired as the longest-serving captain of any team in North American major
league sports history. Once voted to be the most popular athlete
in Detroit sports history, locals often simply refer to Yzerman as "The
Captain." Yzerman won numerous awards during his career, including
the Lester B. Pearson Award in 1989, the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most
Valuable Player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 1998, the Selke Trophy as
the league's best defensive forward in 2000, and the Bill Masterton Memorial
Trophy for perseverance in 2003. He was a ten-time NHL All-Star,
a First Team All-Star in 2000, and a member of the All-Rookie Team in 1984.
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Joe Louis Arena, nicknamed The Joe and JLA, is a hockey arena located
at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of
the National Hockey League franchise, the Detroit Red Wings. Completed
in 1979 at a cost of $57 million, Joe Louis Arena is named after boxer
and former heavyweight champion Joe Louis, who grew up in Detroit.
This makes it one of the few remaining NHL arenas without a corporate sponsorship
name. In the arena's first season it hosted the NHL All-Star Game,
which was played before a then-NHL record crowd of 21,002 and was made
memorable when Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers was introduced on the
Wales Conference line-up and received a ten-minute standing ovation.
The 51-year-old Howe had played 25 years in Detroit, was the NHL's all-time
leading scorer, and probably the most popular Red Wing of all time.
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