Kammala wannan jumla: Ba da daɗewa ba bayan Ken Holland ya sami ƙarin kwantiraginsa, Craig Leipold, mai mallakar Minnesota Wild, da Jeffrey Vinik, sabon mai mallakar Tampa Bay Lightning, sun nemi ɗaukar Yzerman a matsayin babban manaja. Bayan ya ƙi aikin Minnesota kafin lokacin 2009-10 ya ƙare, Yzerman ya karɓi aikin Walƙiya kuma an nada shi sabon mataimakin shugaban ƙungiyar da babban manajan a ranar 25 ga Mayu, 2010. A cikin kakar wasa, kuma a farkon sabon mulkinsa, ya sake sanya hannu kan Martin St. Louis, ya sanya hannu kan mai tsaron baya Pavel Kubina don wa'adinsa na biyu tare da kungiyar, ya sanya hannu kan mai tsaron ragar Dan Ellis zuwa kwangilar shekara biyu, ya sanya hannu kan mai tsaron baya Brett Clark kuma ya kawo hagu Simon Gagné a cikin musayar da ya ga Matt Walker da zagaye na huɗu a
2011 tashi daga Tampa Bay. A tsakiyar kakar wasa, ya kuma yi ciniki don mai tsaron gida Dwayne Roloson yayin da Walƙiya ta ci gaba zuwa Wasannin Karshe na Gabas shekara guda bayan da ƙungiyar ba ta cancanci shiga wasan 2010 ba. A nasa bangaren, an zabi Yzerman don lambar yabo ta Babban Manajan shekara ta NHL, inda ya yi rashin nasara ga Mike Gillis na Vancouver.