{"id":132676,"date":"2025-08-09T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132676\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:11:08","slug":"no-excuse-for-rangers-to-not-name-captain-heres-who-it-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132676\/","title":{"rendered":"No excuse for Rangers to not name captain \u2014 here&#8217;s who it should be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the Rangers in the midst of a summer recess.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Whether to play Mika Zibanejad in the middle or at right wing, and whether to move Braden Schneider to his off-side on the second pair or leave the natural righty in place on the third defense tandem are the most critical decisions that incoming head coach Mike Sullivan will confront at training camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the organization\u2019s most consequential decision ahead of the season is whether the hierarchy will name a captain after the past three men to wear the \u201cC\u201d \u2014 Jacob Trouba, Ryan McDonagh and Ryan Callahan \u2014 were all traded no more than four seasons into their tenure and the one before that was a buyout victim ahead of an injury-related retirement, and oh, that happened to be Chris Drury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the hierarchy might be gun-shy. Probably is. The inclination might be to revert to keeping the position vacant, going with multiple alternates as the organization did for the four seasons between McDonagh\u2019s exit at the 2018 deadline and Trouba\u2019s ascension to the role ahead of the 2022-23 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regarding the Rangers in the midst of a summer recess.\u00a0 1. Whether to play Mika Zibanejad in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[80411,1302,293,62,2632,2225,67,132,68,80412],"class_list":{"0":"post-132676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-j-t-miller","9":"tag-new-york-rangers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-columnists","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115000867970228476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}