Training Log: The Riddle of Steel
- Day 5
Filed Under (Training) by admin on 27-06-2009
Tagged Under : Riddle of Steel, Steve Yzerman
TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
STEVE YZERMAN
Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is arguably the greatest leader professional hockey has ever seen.
Sometimes the fans call for the retirement of a player because his skills have diminished to the point where he is a shadow of his former self. In Yzerman’s case, at the age of 41, he was still a skilled player but almost every hockey fan and analyst hoped he would lace them up so he wouldn’t have to play through any more debilitating and potentially permanent injuries. Such was the man’s drive to compete and will to win.
Over the course of his career, Yzerman suffered and overcame potentially career-ending knee injuries. The surgeries involved and totals of games missed during recovery would have been enough to make anyone contemplate retirement. Upon returning to the ice with reconstructed knees, he received a slapshot in the eye, damaging his cornea and breaking his orbital bone.
Yzerman retired as the 6th all-time leading scorer in NHL history, with over 1,700 points. He is one of only five players ever to score 150 points in a season and one of the exceedingly few to score 1,000 assists in a career. His 185 playoff points also put him among the NHL’s greatest postseason performers.
He was voted the league MVP by the players in 1989, earning him the Lester B. Pearson Award. To this, he would add 10 All-Star Games, the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the league’s best defensive forward and the Bill Masterton Trophy for perseverance and dedication to hockey. And, of courses, there were three Stanley Cups.
His twenty straight years as captain of the Detroit Red Wings stands as the longest tenure of any captain in North American professional sports history, and his jersey #19 was retired by both the Red Wings and the Canadian National Team. He was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009. If it was there to be done, Yzerman did it.
TODAY: DAY OFF!
Today it is time to sit back and let the work of the previous days take effect. Not exactly the type of activity you need the inspiration of Steve Yzerman to achieve, but important nonetheless.
TRAINING NOTES
Total Sets (Anywhere): Zero
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