Canucks Netminder Weathers The Stormy C
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| The captaincy change is not likely to affect the bandwagon jumpers…or is it? |
VANCOUVERLAND– The Vancouver Canucks hockey franchise announced today that Roberto Luongo will be returning the “C”, giving up the letter that represents the captaincy for his National Hockey League club. Luongo was the Canucks captain for the past two seasons, but is returning to the ranks in order to focus on his primary goaltending tasks.
A new captain has not yet been chosen by the players or team management.
While the decision to relinquish the captain’s role is already causing an immediate stir within the Vancouver hockey community, and there is much gossip and scuttlebutt surrounding who would take over as the new team captain, there are some serious questions being raised surrounding the affect this move will have on the team’s leadership.
While some may wonder how this decision effect’s player egos and how it will impact the Canucks’ dressing room, the Vancouver fans probably recognize that Luongo will be the same leader, but will now have the extra time to dedicate on his game preparation and the other game-day rituals that goalies use to prepare themselves mentally.
While the change might be considered disruptive, Luongo fans must certainly be relieved that they don’t need to go out and buy new authentic or replica jerseys, since the “C” never appeared on any of his team uniforms (the “C” only ever appeard on Luongo’s mask!)! The money that will be saved not having to pay a tailor to remove the expensive letter stitching from costly brand name hockey apparel can be applied to the increased costs of attending Canucks home games due to the introduction of the HST.
Honestly, how much money have fans spent on new team clothing, every time there is a slight modification to the uniform?
Obviously Canucks souvenir wear is not as cheap as it was when Vancouver hockey fans had to shell out significant amounts of money to buy #90 jerseys when Pavel Bure casually decided to change his player number from #10. Obviously there was much more cash register ringing for that event that when Peter Shaefer decided to go with the number 72.
We can only feel sorry for those who idolize other players on the team, such as Henrik Sedin, those cash-strapped Canucks supporter who must buy new jerseys (probably both home and away but excluding the popular Johnny Canuck design), to demonstrate their full support of the new captain.
There will always be those who second-guess the original decision to award Luongo the captaincy in the first place, but no one will have to spend any money on updating their Canucks-wear to adopt to the new team changes…except for a few recreation league goalies and the odd minor-league goalkeeper who adopted the C-adorned Luongo mask style.
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