Who’s More Likely Our Next Captain: Lafreniere or Fox

[DialUp]

Laf may be captain one day, but not in his infant youth. They tend to give those out to the "mature" kids like Toews, Crosby, Landeskog, etc. But you can tell one day people are going to murder for that ranga bastard. Love him.
Fox seems a bit odd, no? Very Leetch like. Let him just dominate on the ice.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Would bet a decent amount Trouba is named captain prior to next season

 

[Savant]

Neither

 

[bobbop]

Neither

 

[Jayan]

Im fine with anyone not named Ryan.. those captains tend to end up in Tampa..

 

[Idlerlee]

Mats Zuccarello in absentia

 

[BLEETCH1994]

The Foxes Love Me.....Finnegan and Dixie. - YouTube

 

[Pidto Files]

The captain isn’t even on the team, yet..

 

[Siddi]

According to Lafreniere Mika should be the next captain.

 

[AlaBlueShirt]

Lindgren>

 

[Kaapo Hollweg]

According to Lafreniere Mika should be the next captain.

But... but... but he has no personality in front of the press asking him dumb questions during post-game interviews, which automatically means he has no personality in the locker room either and cannot be a leader.

 

[GAGLine]

Personality-wise, I think Laf makes more sense, but I'm not sure that either get it. If Zib is re-signed, it very well could be him.

 

[Cmox]

Fox said he’s not a “rah, rah type” and he’s more or so quiet. I don’t think he wants to be a Captain.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Self deleted.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Fox is Leetch, Sublime talent but not a Captain.

Zibanejad also too 'Beta' to be a captain. Not that he's necessarily 'soft' but he's another quite type. He's never done anything when someone took advantage of another Ranger or ran their goalies, he's out.

Lafreniere seems like the one. In addition to his talent, he's got that outgoing personality like he's one of the boys and he's got a nice edge to him.

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

It blows my mind, that after a full season of not being named captain and playing like crap, some people are still naming Kreider and Zibanejad as potential candidates for captain.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Fox is Leetch, Sublime talent but not a Captain.

Zibanejad also too 'Beta' to be a captain. Not that he's necessarily 'soft' but he's another quite type. He's never done anything when someone took advantage of another Ranger or ran their goalies, he's out.

Lafreniere seems like the one. In addition to his talent, he's got that outgoing personality like he's one of the boys and he's got a nice edge to him.

I myself am more of a hockey traditionalist than most, and my uncle is even mores so, he’s a total boomer who when I tell him the Canucks signed a new player the first question he has is “how big is he?” But something he pointed out to me during that incident was how Mika was much closer to the play and skated away, Panarin came from far away and skated right at Wilson and jumped into it. Mika is pretty big and Panarin is one of the smallest players in the league. A leader should stand up for their teammates. I’ve long thought Mika was too meek & milquetoast for a captain, this solidified that.

Panarin would be a great captain, he checks every box except his English lol

 

[Kodiak]

Trouba keeps it warm for a few years until Lafreniere is ready. Trouba stepped up towards the end and then the team fell apart without him.

Zibanejad seemed like more of a leader in past years. We would see him take teammates to task for their performance. I didn't see that as much from him this year. With Zibanejad and Kreider, I feel like if they were going to be named captain, it would have been done already. With Trouba, you could say he needed time to get comfortable with the team.

 

[Fugazy]

Laf.

 

[Fitzy]

Choosing Lafreniere would be a symbolic gesture at this point, but it's the correct one.

The alternative is you pick a current veteran but then likely have to strip it from them for Lafreniere 2 years from now before we are able to find a way to trade them, which would be very bad form and very unusual.

So I think you just go with Lafreniere and let him grow into that.

 

[EdJovanovski]

If Laf, when do you guys think we could give him the C?
Teams have done it going into their sophomore season before so it's not unheard of, he is a 1OA pick and possesses more leadership qualities than most. Or do we wait until his 3rd season? I don't like not having a captain

 

[bobbop]

This may be one place where you see Drury put his mark on the team. I don’t know why the Rangers didn’t have a captain. They have good candidates. Perhaps it was Quinn not wanting to put a stake in the ground.

Players and coaches are not the only thing Drury is going to change. I expect there will be a captain come training camp.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

Id give it to Trouba to raise his value around the league, that’s #2 and more importantly because he went down and we fell apart. Just goes to show how important he is to the team. Nasty SOB on the ice too and doesn’t take shit from anyone.

 

[Edge]

I read this question as who is more likely to be captain someday, as opposed to who should be named captain now or in the short term. I don't think either gets named short term.

Long term, based on what I've heard about personality, and seen, Lafreniere "looks" like he's gonna be a guy who sets the personality tone for his team and leads them on the ice as well. That's not a knock on Fox --- which inevitably it almost feels like. But I think Laf is gonna be a captain and face of the franchise.

 

[JT Kreider]

what do you mean?

That C has been nothing but a curse since Messier left the first time around