Last night I didn’t think much of the news that the Philadelphia Flyers named Claude Giroux their newest captain. It was an unsurprising move and pretty much expected to say the least. What got my gears turning to write this piece, however, was seeing a Flyers fan I follow on Twitter retweet something from, I …
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Blue Jackets: To Give The “C” Or To Earn The “C”?
Captaincy is something important to every team, you give it to that one character guy who leads by example on and off the ice. But when the “c” is up for grabs, what do you do? And in The Blue Jackets case, how do you go about reassigning it? Do you just give it to …
The Value of the C
C, the third letter of the alphabet. The letter that professional sports teams designate their captains with. Sometimes captains are superstars like Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby or Washington’s Alex Ovechkin. Other times they are hard nosed types like Los Angeles’ Dustin Brown or Winnipeg’s Andrew Ladd. What exactly does a captain in hockey do? NHL rules …