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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
The Captain's job is to lead by example on and off the ice, and there is only so much he can do in the dressing room when the team is unexpectedly falling apart.
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Is that really all a captain is? That may describe the Flames' captain, but I've certainly seen captains that do a whole hell of a lot more. Iginla, for example, would drop the gloves when things weren't going well. He'd also hit everything in sight. Didn't see much of that last night. The captain is the only consistent leader this team has had in six seasons, and from the looks of things, this team performs better under a vocal hard-nosed task master like Hartley than a player-friendly strategist like Gulutzan. So that suggests that there's a leadership vacuum that has been left behind that Giordano isn't stepping in to fill. Instead, i suspect Giordano his the band leader of the coach killing contingent. This is only a suspicion, but we're now on our third coach with the same captain. Doesn't exactly scream "buy in" to me.