Speculation about the Toronto Maple Leafs captaincy has been the biggest topic this month.
All fingers have been pointing to either Auston Matthews, Morgan Rielly or John Tavares earning the honour. However, out of these threes, it seemed like Matthews was the one most likely to be deemed captain of the team.
Fans have even went so far as to notice a light imprint of a C on the his jersey in a promotional video on Instagram.
Toronto Maple Leafs Captaincy
Although everything seemed to be set for Matthews to be named captain, nothing’s ever that easy in Leafs Nation.