When One Goes Down, Others Step Up
During the off-season, the leadership had a major shake up for the Carolina Hurricanes. With their captain Justin Williams deciding to take a break and focused on his health and Justin Faulk being traded , the leadership needed to be passed.
Rod Brind’Amore decided on Jordan Staal to pick up the captaincy, with Jaccob Slavin and Jordan Martinook picking up the “A”s. A mix of veterans and young blood with the letters is definitely a nice change of pace and the locker room has rallied behind them.
Now with Martinook, unfortunately, out for a few more week after successful abdomen surgery, the depth of leadership in the hurricane locker room begin to show. People like Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen are beginning to show their leadership skills as the backup alternate captains in Marty’s absence.
I’ll say this if having to many leaders is a bad thing, then this is a problem I will happily take.