{"id":188,"date":"2019-03-27T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/?p=188"},"modified":"2019-03-25T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:15:22","slug":"march-27-steve-yzerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/27\/march-27-steve-yzerman\/","title":{"rendered":"March 27 Steve Yzerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steve Yzerman was born on<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> May 9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1965<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He is a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Canadian<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> retired professional<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ice hockey<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> center<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and current general manager of the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tampa Bay Lightning<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the National Hockey League. Yzerman played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Detroit Red Wings<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is a member of the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hockey Hall of Fame<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He has three daughters, the youngest being Sophia Yzerman, middle is Maria Yzerman, and the eldest is Isabella Yzerman. All three of them attended Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills, Mi, with Isabella at University of Michigan. He won a gold medal with Team Canada at the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2002 Winter Olympics<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This made Yzerman one of few players to win an Olympic gold medal and the Stanley Cup in the same year. Yzerman retired as the longest serving Captain in North American Sports history<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-189 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/yzerman-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Yzerman skating wearing a Red Wings jersey, he is holding his stick out in front of him going forward a puck\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/yzerman-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/yzerman-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/yzerman.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Yzerman was born on May 9, 1965. He is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey center and current general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. Yzerman played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/27\/march-27-steve-yzerman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}