Now the Hurricanes are out a quality player and an official team captain. Having a captain is an essential part of an NHL team, to have a clear cut leader, someone the rest of the team can look up to.
There are only 4 other teams in the NHL who don’t have a captain including the Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, and the newly captain-less Los Angeles Kings. Other than the Kings, the three other teams without a ‘C’ are not clubs you would want to use to model your team after.
So the Hurricanes have three choices in this situation, promote a current roster player to captain, bring in an outside player to be captain, or to just simply move on for the time being without one.