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Originally Posted by Max Cow Disease
Backs is the clear choice. Has been with the team and community since day one, and by all accounts is a character guy with positive leadership qualities. Plays the game the right way (particularly in a Sutter system), and seems to love it here.
Huberdeau or someone else could be a possibility eventually, but the notion of having him just parachute in here as captain on day one seems goofy as all hell.
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That's how I think as well - especially considering that he has never been a captain before.
I think that there are only 2 times that making someone captain on a team who wasn't with them the season before:
1) Expansion team
2) Bringing someone in who is a future hall of famer player with years of being a captain, onto a young team for the explicit purpose of changing the culture.
Calgary just isn't one of those two situtions. Huberdeau will most likely eventually be captain IMO (unless he isn't captain material, or someone else stands out like a sore them ahead of him).
Backlund seems exactly like the guy you give it to. If not him, then at this point, it should probably be nobody until there is a clear captain.