(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News)
Traverse City — The Red Wings will not have a captain to begin the season.
Coach Jeff Blashill, at the team’s charity golf tournament Thursday, said the Wings will go with four alternate captains.
Jusitn Abdelkader, Dylan Larkin, Frans Nielsen and Luke Glendening will be the four alternates.
Glendening replaces Niklas Kronwall, who recently retired, and had been a longtime alternate.
There was much speculation over the summer that Larkin, 23, would be named captain before this season.
Larkin, who served an alternate last season after Henrik Zetterberg gave up the captaincy upon retiring, took a major step in his career last season on and off the ice, growing into a stronger leadership role.