Talking hockey with Yzerman

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Steve Yzerman may have the toughest job in Canadian sport right now. As the Executive Director of Canada's National Men's Ice Hockey Team, Yzerman will head the group that will select the 23-man roster for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

While the public part of his evaluation begins Monday in Calgary when 46 players gather for the four-day National Team Orientation Camp, Yzerman has been scouting, analyzing and thinking about the roster since being named to his post on Oct. 7, 2008.

On Friday, Yzerman, who will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November, took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to chat with NHL.com about the upcoming camp and Olympics:

NHL.com: You have 46 of the best players in the world coming together at one venue and ultimately it will be up to you to pick the team that is right for Canada to win gold again? So, naturally, there is pressure. Do you feel more pressure in your current role than you did when you were playing for Canada?

›Yzerman: "No, no, no. I think in a lot of ways it's very similar, but as a player you just have your own expectations and your own goals. I think for any real competitive player or anyone that has great aspirations, they put greater demands on themselves and are more satisfied with satisfying their own expectations than anyone else's. We're all part of it and we all have to do our job and do it well. To answer your question, no, I don't feel any more pressure. It's the same really."

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=480095

[doniceage]

Yeah anything less than Gold will be deemed a failure by all. Hate to be in his shoes.

Don

[doniceage]

Yeah anything less than Gold will be deemed a failure by all. Hate to be in his shoes.

Don