Captain Canada is Captain Crosby.
In what was undoubtedly the management of the easiest decision team and coache staff had to do before the 4 nations next month, Team Canada officially appointed Sidney Crosby as captain for the tournament Thursday after -noon.
The man who marked the gold objective at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games previously carried the “C” of his country at the two best international events of the best: the 2014 Sochi Games and the 2016 Hockey Cup 2014 , which were won by Canada.
Not only is Crosby the oldest captain in the NHL – he has held this honor with Pittsburgh’s Penguins for more than 17 years, and counts – but he is also one of the most decorated international hockey players in Canada of all time.
The country has a 45-5 file in matches when it wore the sweater.
The Curriculum Vitae de Crosby includes two Olympic gold medals, a gold from the world hockey championship IIHF, a gold in the world junior championship and a world cup title. He was also appointed MVP of the 2016 World Cup tournament.
Thus, while Crosby may have sold the unofficial title of “best player on the planet” to Connor McDavid in recent years, there has been no serious discussion on someone else who took the captain For the tournament from February 12 to 20. McDavid, named another captain with Makar hold, made sure.
“It should be Sid. He should be Sid for sure, “McDavid told journalists in October when he asked him about the decision of the Captain of Canada. “It is not even a question. This is how it should be. He’s Sidney Crosby and he’s so many times and he’s the guy. It is not as if I thought about it a lot, it’s just such evidence. “”
There was nothing ceremonial or nostalgic in the choice of Crosby.
At 37, he will be the oldest participant in the playground of the 4 nations, but he remains an incredibly impactful player with 55 points in 53 games for the Penguins this season. This includes the notation of the winner in overtime in Utah on Wednesday evening. The current production rate of Crosby puts it in rhythm to become the first NHLER never with 20 consecutive point per game campaigns, which would break a record which he currently shares with Wayne Gretzky at 19.
Among active Canadian players, its 1,651 career points are almost 500 more than anyone. Steven Stamkos (1,170 points) is n ° 2 on this list and he did not receive an invitation from 4 nations.
McDavid has the next highest total total among the Canadian Crosby teammates with 1,048 career points – including 21 goals and 66 points in 44 games this season. He will probably take the coat as the next Canadian captain once the Crosby player career is over. McDavid is in his ninth season as Captain of the Edmonton Oilers and won the Conn Smythe Trophy in a losing cause last spring after having led his team in match 7 of the Stanley Cup final.
Makar is the youngest member of the leadership group at the age of 26. He is himself a former winner of Conn Smythe – in 2022, when the Colorado avalanche lifted the Cup – and he was the only defender included among the first six selections of Canada in June.
He wears an “A” for the avalanche and made comparisons with Bobby Orr while compiling 392 points thanks to 367 career games in the NHL. It is likely to connect the most minutes of one of the Canadian skaters when confronting the 4 nations.
There is no shortage of Canadian players who wear letters with their NHL teams, including the current captains Brad Marchand of Boston and Mark Stone of the Vegas Golden Knights.
Marchand was also included in the first six invitations of Canada.
Among the other members of the team who carry another “A” captain in the NHL are Nathan Mackinnon (Colorado), Colton Parayko (St. Louis Blues), Josh Morrissey (Winnipeg Jets) and Travis Konecny (Philadelphia Flyers ).
Alex Pietrangelo would also have attracted a serious consideration to serve one of the alternative captains of Canada because of his vast international experience and his winning pedigree of the Stanley Cup, but he retired from the tournament last week due to ‘A disease.
(Photo: Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
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