BOCA RATON, Florida — The Red Wings golf shirt looks right.



There are certain iconic players and an NHL logo that should never be apart. As Steve Yzerman sat down with me last week at the GM meetings, it’s the first thing that hit me watching him in that Detroit golf shirt. Some things are meant to be.



Not that Yzerman doesn’t look back fondly on his time in Tampa. He really does. He loved working for owner Jeff Vinik and enjoyed rebuilding that Lightning team into a perennial powerhouse. But the commute back and forth from Detroit where wife Lisa and the family stayed behind during his eight years in Tampa wasn’t easy.



So, he’s back home. But he’s got work to do. It’s a bigger task now in Detroit than when he arrived in Tampa in 2011. The Wings’ amazing 25-year playoff run emptied the reserves. The cupboards were somewhat bare when Yzerman came on as GM last spring. But he has rolled up his sleeves...