Edmonton Oilers GM Ken Holland spent 36 years in Detroit, and he sometimes still finds himself thinking one city and calling it another.
By Bob Duff, Featurd
Every so often, Ken Holland can’t help himself. He sees red, and he says ‘we.’
For 36 years, that was the color scheme that mattered most to him. Holland was a Detroit Red Wings player, scout, and from 1997-2019, the team’s general manager. He was a lifer. Or so he thought. Last summer, when the Wings brought in Steve Yzerman GM and kicked Holland, 63, upstairs into a role where he wouldn’t have control over the day-to-day operations of the team, he wasn’t ready for a rocking chair.