All the NHL Teams without a Captain entering the 2022-23 Season
By Jim Lynch
Buffalo Sabres
Does anyone remember when the Buffalo Sabres lost their captain? Oh, that’s right, that small news story from this past season when Jack Eichel demanded a trade after the team wouldn’t allow the surgery he wanted.
Technically, he lost the captaincy a bit before that when the team stripped it from him. Either way, the moral of the story is the C still has some baggage in Buffalo. I guess the Sabres won’t name a new captain this upcoming season. When they do name one though I bet it will be Alex Tuch who was traded to Buffalo in the deal that sent Eichel to Vegas.
Calgary Flames
Fun fact: two teams with captain vacancies have had the same player serve as their last captain. For the Calgary Flames that would be Mark Giordano who was with the Calgary Flames from 2005 through 2021.
Giordano was the Flames’ captain from 2013-2021, taking over for Jarome Iginla when he left the team in 2013. The Flames have a lot of great candidates to replace Giordano as captain, although two of their best options left this past offseason in Tkachuk and Gaudreau