Back in 1995-96, the Detroit Red Wings were well on their way towards a record setting campaign. The previous off season, Jim Devallano and company entertained the idea of trading...Steve Yzerman. There were whispers around Detroit that Yzerman couldn't lead the team to the promised land, the Stanley Cup. The Wings were by all accounts embarrassed by New Jersey in the 1995 Finals. The rumor as I remember it had Yzerman going to the Ottawa Senators for Alexei Yashin and draft picks. Then as it the story goes, Keith Primeau would have been named captain and the one-two punch of Yashin and Sergei Fedorov would have made the Wings the team to beat. Something funny happened along the way: Kris Draper was pummelled by Claude Lemieux in the 1996 Western Finals. On top of that, Primeau decided to hold out for more money. Ken Holland took over, and the rest is history.
The question here is this: what if Devallano pulled the trigger on the Yzerman trade? How would history have been altered?
2007-09-05
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