Picking a captain

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McBait
Published 8/21/2008 by Jason Chen at HockeyAnalysis.com
... first round, but the former seems unlikely already. While McCabe is a huge step up over Mike Van Ryn , who is rumoured to be going the other way, he’s not exactly a guy that can just turn around the fortunes of an underachieving team. The Panthers still have a shoddy offense and have yet to replace Olli Jokinen , and even with McCabe’s offensive abilities they’re still lacking bite. On a semi-related topic, the Panthers are one of 8 teams who still have not named a captain, and James Mirtle has brought up some names. For the record, I don’t think anyone on the Thrashers, ...

Captaincy conundrums for eight teams heading into camp
Published 8/21/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
Clearly inspired by the torrid debate about the Florida Panthers' vacant captaincy in our Puck Daddy rumors chat yesterday (or not), our buddy James Mirtle offers a neat little post today on the captaincy questions for the Panthers, Atlanta Thrashers, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks. Some of the possibilities are ripe for debate: Should the Flyers give Mike Richards the 'C' instead of Kimmo ...

How do you pick a captain?
Published 8/21/2008 by Richard at IllegalCurve.com
... of the day: How do you pick a captain? Do you go with age and experience? Youth? A forward or a defenceman? A North American or a European? Grit or finesse? If we assume Joe Sakic’s coming back in Colorado and Mats Sundin’s headed for parts unknown, there are eight NHL clubs searching for a captain in training camp this year: Atlanta, Florida, Los Angeles, the Rangers, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Toronto and Vancouver. Read the entire entry here. Mirtle poses an interesting question and really the answer is ...

Sabres still need a captain
Published 8/22/2008 by Ebscer (noreply@blogger.com) at Blue & Gold (of Buffalo)
... Despite the assumption that the Sabres will stick with a rotating captain, I think it is likely that they will not do so for this season. I think the ...