Captain Darryl Sittler
Captain Definition : "Captain is the only player designated by the team to speak with game officials regarding rule interpretations". That may be the rulebook definition of NHL team captain, but, as fans, we may have a more personal description and "a guy who best represents our team and our city". We all have our favourite captain, past or present. After he retired from the game, I asked Hab superstar, Guy Lafleur, why he was never the captain of the team. He said, "I didn't want the pressure that comes with that job, especially in a hockey crazy city like Montreal." The Toronto Maple Leafs' first captain was "Hap" Day in 1927, and the team's most recent appointee is Auston Matthews. In Leafs' history, we've had some outstanding choices as well as some embarrassments. No need to use this space to dwell on the poor choices when I can acknowledge one of the game's finest ambassadors and a team captain beyond compare, D...