re nhl team captains in apr ann arbor applicon slb com colling ann arbor applicon slb com michael collingridge writes and while we are on the subject has a captain ever been traded resigned or been striped of his title during the season any other the leafs have always been kind of comical during the second imlach era when darryl sittler was called a cancer on the team he tore the c off his sweater and for a while the leafs didn t have a captain sittler eventually ended up in philly and he was promised the philly captaincy by new gm and sittler s friend bobby clarke instead sittler got traded to detroit rick vaive was the leaf captain for awhile but he slept in one day and they took the captaincy away from him then he was traded to chicago during doug carpenter s tenure as leaf coach in an attempt to kiss the ass of a sulking gary leeman the leafs took the a away from brad marsh to give to leeman leeman wouldn t take it and when they tried to give it back to marsh he wouldn t take it neither the best story i remember about a captain concerned mel bridgman late of the senators while he was in philadelphia bobby clarke arguably one of the great captains of all time was bumped up to the status of playing coach and so he had to relinquish the captaincy bridgman be came the new captain a reporter asked a flyer what bridgman did as a captain since clarke was still the undisputed leader amongst the players the reporter was told that bridgman was in charge of making sure that the soap dispensers in the showers were always full cordially as always maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca so many morons rm and so little time
