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The Meaning Of The ‘C’
by Paul on 10/06/09 at 12:41 PM ET
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from Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated,
The NHL alphabet used to begin with the letter C.
There was no role on a team as sacrosanct as captain. There was no responsibility, on the ice and off, that carried so much honor or weight. Compared to most other sports, the significance of the hockey captaincy still resonates—certainly it has greater heft than the letter on Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek’s jersey, guys meeting at midfield for a coin flip or the arm band of a soccer player who casually flips it to a replacement if he is coming out for a substitute—but the institution of the NHL captaincy has eroded as it has evolved in recent years.
The hockey C-word used to be pretty straightforward: the captain was selected or sometimes elected and, well, that was pretty much it. The letter would stick, maybe forever as it did for Steve Yzerman and Joe Sakic or maybe temporarily as it did Mike Modano in Dallas and a young Vincent Lecavalier in Tampa Bay….
Now under the guise of underlining the significance of the position, some NHL teams actually have undermined the position.
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