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All About The Captaincy In San Jose
by Paul on 09/24/09 at 09:59 AM ET
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from Mark Emmons of the Mercury News via the Santa Barbara News-Press, T
he letter is just a thin piece of embroidered fabric, a couple of inches long. It doesn’t look like anything special when pulled out of an equipment-room drawer.
But when stitched onto the uniform of a designated Shark, the ‘’C’’ will be positioned on the upper left chest, right over the heart - fitting because a hockey captain is expected to have a huge one.
No sport has created a greater mythology around the role of captain. In other leagues, the position is a mostly honorary title like the players who handle the pre-game coin flip duties in football.
In hockey, it means something.
‘’It’s always been that way and it always will be because our sport is different,’’ said Sharks defenseman Rob Blake, who was a longtime captain with the Los Angeles Kings. ‘’There needs to be an ultimate voice in the room that everyone else responds to, and it belongs to the captain.’’
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