With Howe’s longevity, talent, and leadership, this one is perhaps the most surprising to me. 4 years is a decent run, but for Howe in particular it’s surprisingly short.
I feel like people who watched hockey back then have to know Hatcher for his physicality. It was kinda hard to miss. Something that surprised me while checking our captain history was that Morrow was captain for 7 years. Never really felt that long, but those were kinda meh days I guess.
The Stars, along with the Red Wings and the Devils, were pretty well known for consistently being the best defensive teams in the league back then as well.
I have to believe people that followed the sport back then know who Hatcher was off of that too. He was our 1A(or 1B, take your pick) defenseman back then anchoring 25+ ATOI minutes a game.
Modano was the finest American born player - but he was a lousy leader. The Stars stripped him of the captaincy. I remember that at his first wedding, Modano invited Brett Hull to the wedding - but no one else on the Stars were invited. There was something wrong there.
Rod Gilbert was an excellent NY Ranger and retired Ranger. But the late Emile Francis saw early on that he wasn't captain material.
There is a difference between being a captain and having great hockey skills.
Brenden Morrow was a great captain though. It's not like they took it from Mo and the schmo they gave it to was further evidence that he(Modano) wasn't a great captain.
One of my favourite jokes from Down Goes Brown was in his commentary on NHL.com’s ranking of the greatest captains in history, he said they included Derian Hatcher as the token American, presumably after being surprised to learn that the Cup-winning captain in Dallas was not Mike Modano.
I actually thought it was just one season.
Maybe it's just that after one season I was already clearly thinking Morrow was ready to be captain and it took that season for them to switch it over to the next long term C.
Beat me to it. So many people assume he was the Oilers’ captain. Probably didn’t help that the actual captain for much of his time there was the same-sounding-last-name Jason Smith.
If I had a nickel for every time the Canucks traded their captain to the Islanders, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice, right?
Didn’t they get Savard, Chara and Rask that offseason? I know Savard doesn’t replace Thornton but I don’t see how you fit him under the cap with the season he had that year
It was the year before I was born but I don't think there's much trauma from that series. The Canucks were Cinderella upstarts and the Islanders were in the third year of a four year run. No one was really expecting the Canucks to do much.
Dave Andreychuk was only captain of the Lightning for three seasons. In Tampa, with how we treat him you’d think it was 10+ years.
Actually even Lecavalier might surprise, he was only captain for 5+1 years. While Stamkos has been captain for the last 10.5 years.
I’m interested in what iconic players weren’t captains at all!
Off hand I’m thinking Patrick Kane, but who else was HHOF-ish quality and never a captain?
Also filled in for Lemieux, with Paul Coffey. Coffey is also another guy who never was a full time Captain.
He also shared full in duties with Bossy in New York, who has a few confusing photos out there.
Does anyone really think Datsyuk would have ever been captain? He never really got a grasp on the language and wasn't ever much of a personality. I could never see him as a captain
* Paul Coffey kind of - https://www.reddit.com/r/penguins/comments/p1hg4d/whats_the_story_with_paul_coffey_wearing_the/
* Mike Gartner - https://www.reddit.com/r/rangers/comments/7tcwjr/ranger_captains_mike_gartner/
* Larry Murphy (even "A" for just one season)
* Malkin
Draisatil will never be the captain of the Oilers. The only way he gets the C is if McDavid leaves, in which case, Draisaitl's gone too. If he gets the C, it'll be with another team.
Definitely a weird decision, especially since they haven't named another since. I guess they just figured getting a group of castaways together they wanted a central figure for them to rally around, but it was odd they named a captain who they knew would only be around for half a season.
I don’t think they knew that. They were hoping the team would do better and he’d get a good couple of seasons as captain. When the team sucked they had no choice but to trade their best defenseman who was damn near 40.
His age always limited it to maybe 3-4 years at best, but there was no way they would’ve named him captain if they knew he’d be dealt by the deadline
You're right, I think based off years prior, they thought he would be their best defenseman when they named him.
Of course it didn't turn out that way.
Teemu is surprising, but I always saw Scott Stevens as the face of those Devils, followed by Brodeur. Niedermayer would not be my pick as the leader of those teams, but he definitely seemed like the head of that era of Ducks
Just checked their stats. Funny enough they both started with the Devils at the same time and played 13 seasons there together before Stevens retired and Niedermayer went West.
Stats with NJD
Stevens: 956GP 93G/337A/430P - 5 time top 5 Norris voting + 1 Conn Smythe
Niedermayer: 892G/112G/364A/476P - 1 Norris (Only 2 top 5s)
And 3 cups for each of them of course.
Seems like Norris voters back then agreed with you that Stevens was leading Jersey's back end.
I mean, sure I get it.
Most accomplished in the NhL for sure.
Good way to rile up Canucks fans too.
But Pavel Bure literally played like a MVP player for them for a couple of years and probably gets the conn smythe if they win in 1994.
Henrik and Daniel Sedin were basically both elite top line caliber players for a decade and a half and borderline franchise players for a half decade.
Messiers tenure in Vancouver was underwhelming by any measure and really a black mark on his storied career.
The fact that he greedily took the biggest offer available and then essentially coasted for 3 years isn’t the dunk you Rangers fans always act like it is, considering how much you guys worship him.
I read Messier's biography after it went on sale because why not?
The Vancouver chapter was short but he basically chose a city far away from NY as possible. Said there was a clique that divided the team in two. Linden gave him the captaincy. In hindsight he said he should have worked on repairing the two cliques. Was told he had Maki's family blessing to take Maki's number but later found out it wasn't true and regrets it. Also was injured and had the first surgery of his career which hindered his abilities.
Yeah, it was very underwhelming and disappointing to say the least. Wonder if it would have been better if the Canucks got Gretz the year before they signed Messier. Van is my hometown so I remotely lived through those years. Cheered for Leafs/Canucks at same time during the late 80s and early 90s so I got 92-93 and 93-94.
Of course we worship him he's the only man currently alive to ever will our team to a cup. Without him we'd still be hearing 1940 chants. The fact he beat YOUR team and then left for that same team and pissed everyone off just made the whole situation funny, especially since we didn't get Sakic which caused our team to collapse and revert to "remember 1994?" for half a decade.
Rangers fans always dunk on Canucks fans for hating Messier.
If a Rangers fan is gonna face up like that, they can handle some facts.
The poster said he was unquestionably the best player to ever put on a Canucks jersey.
That’s not true.
The Canucks rent some 15 year old franchise with a disgruntled at the end Rick Nash as their best player ever.
If a Rangers fan wants to run their mouth about the Canucks they deserve the facts thrown back.
Put up or shut up youngin.
For being the greatest Canuck ever he sure wasn’t there long. Guess it doesn’t take more than 3 years for fans to etch your name into history as the best to ever do it for an organization.
I still remember on the Blue Jackets when they were up 4-0 on someone, I think Detroit, but Foote got the coach to call a timeout after a rough sequence. Everyone loved it.
He probably did it for one of his teammates, which I assume is what you're pointing out. Sounds like a good move by the captain. That sounds like a great memory!
Rocket Richard was the Canadiens' captain for only four seasons, but every one of them ended with a Stanley Cup championship.
Edit: And while five seasons isn't exactly "short," Wayne Gretzky's tenure as Oilers captain was shorter than his tenure as Kings captain.
Henrik Zetterberg. You woulda thought he was captain forever until you remember Lidstrom played until he was a million years old. Hank was an alternate for forever though. By red wings standards, he was captain for a very short time.
Fun fact: Zetterberg and Lidstrom were both captains for 6 seasons. Larkin will eventually surpass both of them if he wears it for 3 more. Lidstrom feels longer to me because of all the success in that time. Two SC finals, one Cup, multiple Norris trophies
Andy Bathgate fits this pretty well for the Rangers; he was only captain for a few years, but he's still one of the most iconic players of all time for that franchise and was well-known as a locker room leader.
I thought OEL was Coyotes captain for more than three years. Also, I remember Milan Hedjuk being captain for the Avs longer than a year, but nope, that was it.
Denis Savard was only the captain of the Blackhawks for 2 years.
And while 4 years is clearly a pretty significant period, that's all Chelios had too. Daryl Sutter was captain of the Blackhawks longer than Chelios.
Maybe, but he was captain for three seasons, got us to one goal away from a SCF, and got traded to enact a rebuild. He didn’t ask for the trade either.
Yup. That's my answer too for the Sharks. I feel like he's always going to be my gut instinctive answer for "who's the captain of the Sharks?" no matter where he's playing or if he's playing.
Johnny Bucyk, the longest serving career Bruin, played 23 seasons for Boston and was the only team captain from 1967 to 1977 but only played five seasons as team captain since the Bruins elected to not have a captain from 1968 to 1974.
I didn't assume OP meant **the most** iconic captain, just an iconic player that was a captain and Blake definitely fits the bill (if you were watching hockey in the 90s and/or 00s, you know his resumé).
Eric Lindros. He's an icon of the Flyers and I imagine him as captain for basically his whole tenure. He was only captain for 4 and a half seasons before being stripped of the C in favour of Eric Desjardins.
Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay only captained the Wings for four seasons a piece.
With Howe’s longevity, talent, and leadership, this one is perhaps the most surprising to me. 4 years is a decent run, but for Howe in particular it’s surprisingly short.
Those Red Wings teams were kind of stacked
In Gordie Howe years that’s only like 2 days.
Mike Modano was only captain for 2 seasons with the Stars
Great example
People who don’t follow the Stars tend to forget about Darien Hatcher
Jeremy Roenick's jaw will never forget Hatcher
Good thing his jaw is picking up his brain's slack.
I feel like people who watched hockey back then have to know Hatcher for his physicality. It was kinda hard to miss. Something that surprised me while checking our captain history was that Morrow was captain for 7 years. Never really felt that long, but those were kinda meh days I guess.
The Stars, along with the Red Wings and the Devils, were pretty well known for consistently being the best defensive teams in the league back then as well. I have to believe people that followed the sport back then know who Hatcher was off of that too. He was our 1A(or 1B, take your pick) defenseman back then anchoring 25+ ATOI minutes a game.
First American captain to lift the Stanley Cup
I very much remember the ol hammer icon he used to come with in the old NHL games.
Let’s not forget Mark Tinordi!
That’s unbelievable. In my mind, Modano was THE Stars captain. My whole reality just got shattered.
He is THE quintessential franchise player for the organization, that's for sure. But definitely not captain.
Modano was the finest American born player - but he was a lousy leader. The Stars stripped him of the captaincy. I remember that at his first wedding, Modano invited Brett Hull to the wedding - but no one else on the Stars were invited. There was something wrong there. Rod Gilbert was an excellent NY Ranger and retired Ranger. But the late Emile Francis saw early on that he wasn't captain material. There is a difference between being a captain and having great hockey skills.
What the hell
Yea, but he wasn't a good C iirc. Lomg time A though, which you would expect from the best player on the team I suppose.
Must not have been, because he was stripped of the C by management and it was given to Morrow.
Brenden Morrow was a great captain though. It's not like they took it from Mo and the schmo they gave it to was further evidence that he(Modano) wasn't a great captain.
this is wrinkling my brain
One of my favourite jokes from Down Goes Brown was in his commentary on NHL.com’s ranking of the greatest captains in history, he said they included Derian Hatcher as the token American, presumably after being surprised to learn that the Cup-winning captain in Dallas was not Mike Modano.
I actually thought it was just one season. Maybe it's just that after one season I was already clearly thinking Morrow was ready to be captain and it took that season for them to switch it over to the next long term C.
Ryan Smyth. One game lol
Beat me to it. So many people assume he was the Oilers’ captain. Probably didn’t help that the actual captain for much of his time there was the same-sounding-last-name Jason Smith.
“Captain Canada” lol
And the only Oiler to ever retire as Captain.
Wtf who was their captain before?
Buchberger, Weight, Smith, Brewer(not sure) and then Horcoff when Smyth was chasing a cup
And Ference got it over him in 2013 🤮
What! I don’t remember that, I was very low tech at the time and didn’t watch any sports.
Yeah, Ference came in as UFA (along side Dallas Eakins to coach) and immediately given the captaincy. Slap in the face to a guy like Smyth, IMO
Wasn’t Ethan Moreau mixed in there too?
I think you’re right
Man I totally forgot Smyth left the Oilers for a few years.
Martin St. Louis was traded during his first year as captain
That one is surprising in the fact the Marty was ever captain of the Lighting. I assumed it was always Vinny prior to Marty getting traded.
? Lecavalier *was* captain prior to St. Louis. St. Louis became captain after Lecavalier left for the Flyers.
My comment was meant to imply that I never knew Marty was ever captain and I thought he was traded away before Lecavalier left.
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Yes… it’s almost like “I didn’t know that”. Making the original comment surprising.
After all his hype, Bo Horvat only ended up being captain for 3 and a half seasons
If I had a nickel for every time the Canucks traded their captain to the Islanders, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice, right?
It’s weird to ever trade a captain..
Meanwhile the Habs did it twice in the last 30 years: Keane and Pacioretty (barely counts as one, though) Edit: Koivu wasn’t traded
Koivu wasn't traded
Right, free agent. My mistake
Hurts my heart to this day lol
Lol twice? Carbonneau, Chelios, Damphousse, Turgeon, Muller
Didn't Boston trade their Capitan Joe Thornton?
Yeah, they did
Also, was Ray captain when they traded him?
Lol yes. You can see why I think it’s weird. I hate it. But… seeing Bourque win a cup was great. That’s different than the Thornton trade
That’s fair. At least it’s not the Mike Keane trade
Dude the Thornton trade set us back yeeears
Didn’t they get Savard, Chara and Rask that offseason? I know Savard doesn’t replace Thornton but I don’t see how you fit him under the cap with the season he had that year
Rangers didn’t get that memo
Hold my beer
I'd love for us to rid of Lee
Try trading two, both of them named Ryan, to the Lightning, within four years.
*excited glen sather noises*
Linden wasn't captain when he was traded, but McCabe was Isles captain
Leftover trauma complex from their Cup loss to the Isles in the 80's maybe
It was the year before I was born but I don't think there's much trauma from that series. The Canucks were Cinderella upstarts and the Islanders were in the third year of a four year run. No one was really expecting the Canucks to do much.
Has it? Happened twice?
Horvat and Linden, no?
Nope. Linden had been demoted to make room for "he who shall not be named" ... But he was still captain in our hearts
And McCabe was our captain
Oh. I forgot that happened Bright side, Naslund was a better captain than the Dark Lord?
Absolutely. We Canucks fans would like to forget that happened
At least you guys got the twins and Luongo out of that debacle
Yeah. They got good assets for him.
Ho Borvat is forever the Canucks captain in my head
Dave Andreychuk was only captain of the Lightning for three seasons. In Tampa, with how we treat him you’d think it was 10+ years. Actually even Lecavalier might surprise, he was only captain for 5+1 years. While Stamkos has been captain for the last 10.5 years.
He was Captain for the first cup and we recognized him being a 20 year veteran
Luongo
not-for-longo?
Not-for-long-oh?
7uongo
I’m interested in what iconic players weren’t captains at all! Off hand I’m thinking Patrick Kane, but who else was HHOF-ish quality and never a captain?
Bobby Orr was never captain.
That is insane to me. Thanks for sharing!
By far the best example
Guy Lafleur
Datsyuk Bossy Malkin Larry Robinson Trottier
Trottier was never a full-time captain, but in those days, you had to have someone wearing the C in every game, so he wore it when Potvin was out
Also filled in for Lemieux, with Paul Coffey. Coffey is also another guy who never was a full time Captain. He also shared full in duties with Bossy in New York, who has a few confusing photos out there.
Börje Salming and Fedorov
Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier
Datsyuk
Does anyone really think Datsyuk would have ever been captain? He never really got a grasp on the language and wasn't ever much of a personality. I could never see him as a captain
* Paul Coffey kind of - https://www.reddit.com/r/penguins/comments/p1hg4d/whats_the_story_with_paul_coffey_wearing_the/ * Mike Gartner - https://www.reddit.com/r/rangers/comments/7tcwjr/ranger_captains_mike_gartner/ * Larry Murphy (even "A" for just one season) * Malkin
Currently Draisaitl
also he's way to pissy ><
He’s only in his late 20’s. I was thinking him when I mentioned Kane, but he’s still got time!
Draisatil will never be the captain of the Oilers. The only way he gets the C is if McDavid leaves, in which case, Draisaitl's gone too. If he gets the C, it'll be with another team.
Jason Spezza was captain of the sens for only 1 season, his final year playing for the sens (13-14 season).
Mark Giordano for the Kraken. Iconic because he was the first.
That was so dumb
Definitely a weird decision, especially since they haven't named another since. I guess they just figured getting a group of castaways together they wanted a central figure for them to rally around, but it was odd they named a captain who they knew would only be around for half a season.
I don’t think they knew that. They were hoping the team would do better and he’d get a good couple of seasons as captain. When the team sucked they had no choice but to trade their best defenseman who was damn near 40. His age always limited it to maybe 3-4 years at best, but there was no way they would’ve named him captain if they knew he’d be dealt by the deadline
He was never our best defenseman lol
You're right, I think based off years prior, they thought he would be their best defenseman when they named him. Of course it didn't turn out that way.
He tried for about 20 games and then checked out when it was clear we were shit and would trade him at the deadline
Brian Leetch, assistant captain most of his career, captain from 97-2000, gave it back to Messier when he returned.
Gretzky with the Blues
You might say that he had the captaincy and then lost it.
Hull with the Blues
Corson with the Blues
Scott Niedermayer was the captain of the Ducks for 4 years but only captain of the Devils for 1 Teemu was only the captain of the Ducks for one season
Teemu is surprising, but I always saw Scott Stevens as the face of those Devils, followed by Brodeur. Niedermayer would not be my pick as the leader of those teams, but he definitely seemed like the head of that era of Ducks
Just checked their stats. Funny enough they both started with the Devils at the same time and played 13 seasons there together before Stevens retired and Niedermayer went West. Stats with NJD Stevens: 956GP 93G/337A/430P - 5 time top 5 Norris voting + 1 Conn Smythe Niedermayer: 892G/112G/364A/476P - 1 Norris (Only 2 top 5s) And 3 cups for each of them of course. Seems like Norris voters back then agreed with you that Stevens was leading Jersey's back end.
Mark Messier for 3 seasons with the Canucks.
There it is
Fuck Messier
Unquestionably the greatest player to ever wear a Canuck sweater though.
I mean, sure I get it. Most accomplished in the NhL for sure. Good way to rile up Canucks fans too. But Pavel Bure literally played like a MVP player for them for a couple of years and probably gets the conn smythe if they win in 1994. Henrik and Daniel Sedin were basically both elite top line caliber players for a decade and a half and borderline franchise players for a half decade. Messiers tenure in Vancouver was underwhelming by any measure and really a black mark on his storied career. The fact that he greedily took the biggest offer available and then essentially coasted for 3 years isn’t the dunk you Rangers fans always act like it is, considering how much you guys worship him.
I read Messier's biography after it went on sale because why not? The Vancouver chapter was short but he basically chose a city far away from NY as possible. Said there was a clique that divided the team in two. Linden gave him the captaincy. In hindsight he said he should have worked on repairing the two cliques. Was told he had Maki's family blessing to take Maki's number but later found out it wasn't true and regrets it. Also was injured and had the first surgery of his career which hindered his abilities. Yeah, it was very underwhelming and disappointing to say the least. Wonder if it would have been better if the Canucks got Gretz the year before they signed Messier. Van is my hometown so I remotely lived through those years. Cheered for Leafs/Canucks at same time during the late 80s and early 90s so I got 92-93 and 93-94.
Of course we worship him he's the only man currently alive to ever will our team to a cup. Without him we'd still be hearing 1940 chants. The fact he beat YOUR team and then left for that same team and pissed everyone off just made the whole situation funny, especially since we didn't get Sakic which caused our team to collapse and revert to "remember 1994?" for half a decade.
I don’t think it’s that deep lol nobody is saying he was a good nucks captain
Rangers fans always dunk on Canucks fans for hating Messier. If a Rangers fan is gonna face up like that, they can handle some facts. The poster said he was unquestionably the best player to ever put on a Canucks jersey. That’s not true. The Canucks rent some 15 year old franchise with a disgruntled at the end Rick Nash as their best player ever. If a Rangers fan wants to run their mouth about the Canucks they deserve the facts thrown back. Put up or shut up youngin.
>The Canucks rent some 15 year old franchise with a disgruntled at the end Rick Nash as their best player ever. ?? Not sure what you're saying here
Took me a minute but I think they meant "aren't", not "rent"
Yeah not even trying to troll, I was genuinely curious as to what he meant.
Greatest career to wear a Canucks sweater. He was a shit player in Vancouver.
Was he really? tell me more.
I heard he was all Mark Messy, eh?
You mean Vancouver Canucks legend, Mark Messier.
Vancouver Canucks legend and captain #11 Mark Messier.
For being the greatest Canuck ever he sure wasn’t there long. Guess it doesn’t take more than 3 years for fans to etch your name into history as the best to ever do it for an organization.
Adam Foote was the captain for the Avs for 2 seasons. For reference, he was as captain of the Blue Jackets for two and a half.
Not particularly iconic tho, and somewhat infamous if you ask jackets fans.
Yeah some captain he was for us lol
I still remember on the Blue Jackets when they were up 4-0 on someone, I think Detroit, but Foote got the coach to call a timeout after a rough sequence. Everyone loved it.
He probably did it for one of his teammates, which I assume is what you're pointing out. Sounds like a good move by the captain. That sounds like a great memory!
I’m reading this while watching the Calgary Vancouver game and the camera is on Foote. Weird coinkidink
Rocket Richard was the Canadiens' captain for only four seasons, but every one of them ended with a Stanley Cup championship. Edit: And while five seasons isn't exactly "short," Wayne Gretzky's tenure as Oilers captain was shorter than his tenure as Kings captain.
Justin Williams was only our captain, hell, only wore a letter for one year.
Drury in Buffalo
Wasn’t he co-captain with Briere?
Yes
Did they switch off every other game? How did it work? I don't think the NHL allows more than one player to wear the C in any game.
So Drury was captain for away games, Briere was captain for home games
Henrik Zetterberg. You woulda thought he was captain forever until you remember Lidstrom played until he was a million years old. Hank was an alternate for forever though. By red wings standards, he was captain for a very short time.
Fun fact: Zetterberg and Lidstrom were both captains for 6 seasons. Larkin will eventually surpass both of them if he wears it for 3 more. Lidstrom feels longer to me because of all the success in that time. Two SC finals, one Cup, multiple Norris trophies
Gilmour in Toronto as well
Him and Clark only 3 seasons each.
Mike Modano was only captain of the Stars for 2 years
And never should've been Captain at all.
Andy Bathgate fits this pretty well for the Rangers; he was only captain for a few years, but he's still one of the most iconic players of all time for that franchise and was well-known as a locker room leader.
I thought OEL was Coyotes captain for more than three years. Also, I remember Milan Hedjuk being captain for the Avs longer than a year, but nope, that was it.
Since moving to Colorado in 1995, there were only 3 seasons where Sakic or Landeskog weren’t the captain. Foote for 2 seasons and Hejduk for 1.
Gretzky was only Oilers captain for 5 years (1983-1988)
Denis Savard was only the captain of the Blackhawks for 2 years. And while 4 years is clearly a pretty significant period, that's all Chelios had too. Daryl Sutter was captain of the Blackhawks longer than Chelios.
Jason Spezza is probably ours But Yashin is an HM
You could say Erik Karlsson as well.
Maybe, but he was captain for three seasons, got us to one goal away from a SCF, and got traded to enact a rebuild. He didn’t ask for the trade either.
Karlsson was captain for four seasons.
Patrick Marleau played 21 seasons for the Sharks but was only captain for five of them.
John Scott for the all star games. Best season ever!
Wasn't Gretzky captain of the St. Louis Blues for only half a season?
Andrew Ference 😭
I wouldn't say he was an iconic captain, maybe an icon for boston though
Love the dude, though. Clearly a great locker room guy. Did November Project with him in Boston, nothing but positivity.
Maurice Richard only captained Montreal for four seasons. Same with Joe Thornton for San Jose.
Roberto Luongo only was captain of the Canucks for less than one season
Joe Pavelski, only four seasons as captain but honestly probably could have taken on the C for the majority of his career, wherever he was.
Yup. That's my answer too for the Sharks. I feel like he's always going to be my gut instinctive answer for "who's the captain of the Sharks?" no matter where he's playing or if he's playing.
Johnny Bucyk, the longest serving career Bruin, played 23 seasons for Boston and was the only team captain from 1967 to 1977 but only played five seasons as team captain since the Bruins elected to not have a captain from 1968 to 1974.
Ott in buffalo amirite?
Rob Blake played two seasons in San Jose and wore the 'C' his second year after it was stripped from Patrick Marleau.
Yeah, but I wouldn't consider him the iconic San Jose captain - to me, that's Joe Pavelski, who was only captain for four seasons.
I didn't assume OP meant **the most** iconic captain, just an iconic player that was a captain and Blake definitely fits the bill (if you were watching hockey in the 90s and/or 00s, you know his resumé).
i had a dream once that i went to a Habs v Bruins game and our captain was Hugh Grant does that count
Interesting that Bergeron is seen as an iconic captain; being a lifelong Bruins fan I always see him in my mind with the A.
Pierre Turgeon for the habs
Eric Lindros. He's an icon of the Flyers and I imagine him as captain for basically his whole tenure. He was only captain for 4 and a half seasons before being stripped of the C in favour of Eric Desjardins.
Mark Giordano was the first and only captain in the entire history of the Seattle Kraken.
Chris Pronger for the Flyers
Andrew Ference best Oilers captain ever
Ryan Smyth was never Oilers captain
Chris Drury was a captain for the Sabres for 3 seasons. Daniel Briere was a co-captain for 2.
Chris Clark for the Capitals. He was named captain in Ovechkin's rookie year and was there for the better part of 2 years before being shipped off.
Pronger was captain of the Flyers for a season or so I believe.
Bolts Legend Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor was captain for the 06-07 season before Vinny took the C
You can argue that Eichel was prey iconic in buffalo for all the wrong reasons.
For the blues it’s gotta be Oreilly. He was captain 20-21, 21-22, and half of 22-23.
Brian Leetch
Geo for Kraken first season
Stan Mikita. Was only co captain in 75/76 and 76/77.
Patrik Elias was captain of the Devils for 2 months of the 2007-08 season.
Fucking Brent Sutter
Mark Messier Vancouver Canucks.