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Hank Zetterberg is seeing ghosts. He sits in an empty Joe Louis Arena locker room and actually nods in their direction as he praises them — Steve Yzerman, who used to sit on his left, Nick Lidstrom, who sat a few stalls down on his right.
“You do know they’re gone,” I say.
“Yeah,” he laughs.
“But you’re nodding at their lockers as if they’re still here.”
“Well,” he says, his eyes crinkling, “they are still here.”
If so, they make home in the bones of the sturdy but aging form of Zetterberg, who, at age 36, is the last link to Detroit’s 2002 Stanley Cup winners like Sergei Fedorov, Luc Robitaille, Igor Larionov and a certain stocky coach named Scotty Bowman.