page_title: Steve Yzerman
section_title: Awards and achievements
hierarchical_section_title: Steve Yzerman / Awards and achievements
caption_attribution_description: English: Steve Yzerman at his Michigan Sports Hall of Fame induction.
context_page_description: Stephen Gregory Yzerman is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player who spent his entire National Hockey League playing career with the Detroit Red Wings and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. After his retirement as a player, he served in the front office of the Red Wings, and then as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, while also being executive director for Team Canada in two Olympics. He currently serves as the executive vice president and general manager of the Red Wings.
  Prior to the 1986–87 season, at age 21, Yzerman was named captain of the Red Wings and continuously served for the next two decades, retiring 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 "Stevie Y", "Stevie Wonder", or "The Captain". Yzerman led the Wings to five first-place regular season finishes and three Stanley Cup championships.
  Yzerman won numerous awards during his career, including the Lester B.
context_section_description: NHL All-Star Game Roster – 1984 (first 18-year old to be selected to the roster), 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000;
  NHL First Team All-Star – 2000;
  Lester B. Pearson Award – 1989;
  Conn Smythe Trophy – 1998;
  Frank J. Selke Trophy – 2000;
  Stanley Cup champion (as player) – 1997, 1998, 2002;
  Stanley Cup champion (as executive) – 2008;
  Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy – 2003;
  Lester Patrick Trophy – 2006;
  Seventh in NHL history in points, tenth in goals and ninth in assists;
  First in Red Wings history in assists; second in points and goals; fourth in games played; second all-time in seasons and seventh all-time in games played with only one NHL franchise;
  Longest-serving captain for a team in league history (19 seasons, 1,303 games);
  Number (19) retired with Canadian Men's National Team; (#19 later worn at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics by Joe Thornton)
  Named vice-president of Detroit Red Wings – 2006;
  Detroit Red Wings #19 retired on January 2, 2007;
  Named general manager of Team Canada – 2008;
  Was ranked sixth in The Hockey News "The Top 60 Since 1967 – The Best Players of the Post Expansion Era";
  Inducted into Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame – January 11, 2008;
  Inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame – February 11, 2008;
  Inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame – 2008;
  Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame – 2009;
  Named general manager and vice-president of the Tampa Bay Lightning – May 2010;
  Inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame – 2014;
  Named to the Order of Hockey in Canada by Hockey Canada – 2014;
  NHL General Manager of the Year Award – 2015;
  Named on the 100 Greatest NHL Players list for the NHL's Centennial Anniversary – 2017;
  Named general manager and executive vice-president of the Detroit Red Wings – April 2019
caption: Yzerman speaking to the media during his induction ceremony into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame
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