Fansided · May 16, 2020
Toronto Maple Leafs: Re-Evaluating the NHL’s Choice of Captains
After three seasons without a captain, the Toronto Maple Leafs finally rewarded the ‘C’ to John Tavares at the beginning of the 2019-20 season.
For three seasons, one of the biggest news stories of the off-season was: “Who’s Going to Be the Next Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs?
With a crop of young talent, there were plenty of people in the Leafs’ dressing room that seemed qualified for the Leafs captaincy.
Whether it was Mitch Marner, Auston Matthews or Morgan Rielly; you can make a case for either one of them to be the next leader.
But then, John Tavares showed up.
The hometown kid actually came home.