With Henrik and Daniel Sedin retiring after the 2017-18 season, the Vancouver Canucks were left without a captain, but the team opted not to hand out the “C” to anybody in 2018-19.
There were obviously different ways for fans to interpret it. To me, it was a nice way of general manager Jim Benning and head coach Travis Green wanting Bo Horvat to pass an audition and captaincy test to see if he was ready — rather than just throw the C on his jersey right off the bat.
Well, the 24-year-old passed the test with flying colours and looks poised to earn the captaincy before 2019-20 begins.