Well according to this, it's because the players were already deferring to his natural (magical?) leadership aura : http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/nhl/connor-mcdavid-was-natural-choice-to-captain-team-north-america-hes-a-hell-of-a-hockey-player
How much of that is Scheifele and RNH toeing the party line, idk. It's not like they're going to go out and say it was an awful choice after all.
(Mini complaint. I have no patience for captain narratives at all and the hockey media's fixation on it is so tiresome. Plenty of sports teams get along fine without putting a fancy letter on someone. All the ink spilled on who should be captain, Pav, Joe, or Pat? like it's going to change the outcome of even one game out of 82. I roll my eyes.)
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How much of that is Scheifele and RNH toeing the party line, idk. It's not like they're going to go out and say it was an awful choice after all.
(Mini complaint. I have no patience for captain narratives at all and the hockey media's fixation on it is so tiresome. Plenty of sports teams get along fine without putting a fancy letter on someone. All the ink spilled on who should be captain, Pav, Joe, or Pat? like it's going to change the outcome of even one game out of 82. I roll my eyes.)