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Wilderness Walk: Long Live the King

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Plenty of stories to read today, but many of them are just taking deeper looks at what we’ve been seeing from earlier this week. Top of that list has been Mikko Koivu’s extension, and with good reason. He’s the face of the franchise, the team’s first and only player to wear the “C”, and, if I can convince my wife, the inspiration for the name of my first dog... whenever I get one.

One aspect of Koivu’s extension that hasn’t been discussed from what I can tell, is what it means for the captaincy after he eventually retires.