SAN JOSE –- It was a little more than one year ago when Sharks general manager Doug Wilson, appearing on Comcast SportsNet’s Yahoo! Sports Talk Live, said that the team would have “different players in core leadership roles” in time for the 2014-15 season.
After blowing a 3-0 series lead to the Kings – capping years of playoff failure – changes were deemed necessary to the leadership structure, and by the time training camp rolled around Joe Thornton’s four-year reign as captain had unceremoniously ended.
Even after the four alternate captains were chosen, including Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Joe Pavelski and Marc-Edouard Vlasic, the captaincy situation was an ongoing storyline.