Jones & Keefe: Why haven't the Bruins named a captain?

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00:00And why do you think they haven't named one?

00:01So it's funny because it's not, on the one hand,

00:04it's not like the biggest deal in the world.

00:06However, hockey makes it a big deal.

00:08Hockey promotes the captain thing more than any other sport.

00:11Nobody knows who the captains are in basketball,

00:13if teams even have captains.

00:15Teams in baseball really don't.

00:16The only time we talked about it was like Jeter and Veritech.

00:19After that, it's like there's leaders and there's not.

00:22It's not really a thing in baseball.

00:24Football, they do wear the patches and they name them,

00:27but it's usually the quarterback and then a bunch of other guys

00:29where...

00:30And there's also so many.

00:31There's like seven of them.

00:32I mean, some teams more than that.

00:34And so there's not just a captain.

00:36But hockey makes a big thing.

00:38It's a huge tradition in hockey.

00:40And you see it on the jersey as well as the alternate captains, right?

00:44So you see all that on game day all the time.

00:47And for years around here, it was like, all right, Chara.

00:49It was synonymous with it.

00:50Chara has the captain.

00:51Then it was Patrice Bergeron.

00:53Then it was Brad Marchand, which we were told you cannot trade captains.

00:56Well, and this to me makes your point about

00:59the captaincy.

01:00It's like, well, you don't trade your captain.

01:02That's too sacred of a position.

01:04So it's like, all right, is the captain sacred or not?

01:06Because apparently you couldn't trade one, even though they did.

01:08Well, Greg had a theory this morning.

01:10And now they won't name one.

01:11Well, maybe they were thinking about,

01:12depending on how the season goes,

01:14do they end up trading Posterknock or McAvoy?

01:17That was his theory.

01:18That's a good theory, by the way.

01:19And so you don't want to trade back-to-back captains

01:20because that looks bad.

01:21You don't want to name a captain to turn around

01:23and then trade them, bracing for an awful year.

01:26That's a good theory by Greg.

01:27So there are 32 NHL teams.

01:30How many don't have a captain?

01:34I'll answer it for you.

01:36Two.

01:37Two.

01:37The Bruins, an original six team,

01:40and the San Jose Sharks,

01:42one of the more recent six teams probably,

01:44maybe the last six in, the San Jose Sharks.

01:46And I didn't do a deep dive into the San Jose Sharks,

01:49but Logan Couture was their captain for a long time.

01:52And then he, a couple years ago,

01:54played in a handful of games.

01:55I don't know if he was trying to come back or whatever,

01:57but I feel like there's sort of an explanation with like,

02:00hey, we're not going to replace you

02:01with this potential comeback or whatever.

02:03They were keeping the seat warm in case he came back.

02:04He was in the organization, and he was the captain.

02:07And then, Nick, didn't he just say he literally just retired?

02:09He retired in April.

02:10Yeah.

02:11So he had the offseason to give to somebody.

02:12So they could have.

02:13Yeah, 100% they could have.

02:15But they didn't.

02:15And they were sort of waiting and seeing, I guess.

02:18But that's also the Sharks.

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