Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press answers some fan mail.
The first question is about the next captain for the Wings...
The Wings didn’t name a captain after Zetterberg retired last September, instead going with three alternates (Dylan Larkin and Frans Nielsen split wearing an ‘A’ between road and home games, unless one of the other alternates, Niklas Kronwall or Justin Abdelkader, was not in the lineup).
That softened Larkin’s adjustment to the duties of wearing a letter on his sweater. The decision reflected on Larkin’s age (22) and the knowledge the team would struggle (Yzerman was 21 when he was named captain, but that was in 1986, back in the days before the Internet and especially social media).