The Nashville Predators appointed veteran center Mike Fisher as their team Captain this past week. The 36-year-old is a tremendously popular figure in and around Smashville, but that didn’t stop the move from leaving some folks outside the market scratching their head.
First and foremost, the role of Captain is meant to indicate leadership- a quality which is impossible to quantify in numbers and statistics. And the leaders of the Nashville Predators- GM David Poile, Head Coach Peter Laviolette, and even former Captain Shea Weber– have all given their thoughts that Fisher was the right choice to fill the position.