DETROIT -- Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch told 97.1 The Ticket's Morning Show on Thursday that he asked general manager Ken Holland to become team president to make way for vice president Steve Yzerman to become the club's GM, but Holland declined.

"Stevie Y wants to become a GM; we'd love to have him as a GM,'' Ilitch said. "I keep telling Kenny, 'Hey, I want to move you up to president.' He goes, 'I don't want to be a president, I want to be a GM.' So he's going to stay there as GM.''

Holland made it clear he is happy at his current post, which he has held since 1997.

"I'm the general manager, I don't have any interest in becoming president,'' Holland said. "I'm a general manager, that's what I was hired to do.''

Holland has one year remaining on his contract. Club senior vice president Jimmy Devellano told Booth Newspapers last week that Holland and assistant GM Jim Nill will be signed to extensions after the playoffs.

Ilitch told the radio station that he's had "a lot of people call me and want to interview (Yzerman). He's pretty much in demand right now.''

Yzerman reportedly is

. He interviewed last summer for the Minnesota Wild GM post that went to Chuck Fletcher.