DALLAS — The “C” can be a burden. It also can be energizing.
For Gabe Landeskog, it seems to have been both at various times. This season, it’s meant accepting being the spokesman for a team playing historically horrible hockey, trying to lead and even accepting the perceived need to drop the gloves to light a spark, to react to frustration, to lead and show he’s not accepting the awful season passively.
At 24, he already is finishing up his fifth season as the Avalanche’s captain, and there is no reason to believe he will shed the “C” before the 2017-18 season.