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Originally Posted by Textcritic
NHL letters are easily one of the most over-rated and ultimately meaningless aspects of team-building.
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Disagree there, the captian C doesn't get headed out around the league casually. Especially with am expansion franchise, and while there's definitely a symbolic aspect to it, it's also meant a sign of stability because captains don't change year by year in most teams.
I don't expect that the Seattle team is now falling apart with wide eyed rookies shocked becuase their captain was traded. However, Seattle didn't have to name a capitan, the Flames haven't, so for them to do that IMO still means they think he was going to be the foundation they build up, for more than 1 year.