Who is calgarys captain

The Calgary Flames are heading into a new era. With Mark Giordano lacing up for the Seattle Kraken, the Flames are left without their longtime captain. We asked, you answered. Eight years ago, Giordano was named captain and has held that role all the way through until he was drafted by Seattle. His tenure was one of the longest in team history—second to only Jarome Iginla —and he held that role with no signs of wavering. They have several options to say the least.

Who should the Flames name as their next captain? He came into —21 returning from a concussion sustained during the qualifying round of the playoffs against the Winnipeg Jets.

He made his debut in —09 with one game played and no one else is remotely close to him in terms of games played as a Flame. Like Tkachuk, Backlund was named an alternate captain three seasons ago. One day before playing their first-ever NHL regular season game, the Seattle Kraken named a familiar face captain of their expansion team. The Kraken announced that long time former Flames captain Mark Giordano will be the first-year team's inagural captain.

Giordano was a member of the Flames for 14 seasons, and team captain for eight. He won the James Norris trophy as the league's outstanding defenceman in and the Mark Messier Leadership trophy in , before being selected by the Kraken in the expansion draft in Since that season the current Flames Captain has played in games and has 57 points.

Another factor that could contribute to Giordano being moved was the emergence of Noah Hanifin and Chris Tanev as the Flames best defensive pairing in These two were a breath of fresh air on the blue line and their productivity pushed Gio down a pairing. The worst part of typing all that is that I hated doing it. I love Mark Giordano. If you needed a player who is just an all around good guy to be the public face of your franchise there is no better player than Gio.

He has the same canned answers after most Flames losses and when things were going sideways to start the year Matthew Tkachuk was one of the only Flames players showing legit emotion on and off the ice The on ice and off ice effectiveness seems to be gone. Sure it leaves a hole in the Flames D pairings, but that can be worked out through trades and free agency.