“They know me, I know them, they know what’s expected,” head coach Mike Babcock said of the decision during a Hockey Canada conference call. Sidney Crosby will once again serve as captain for Team Canada, joined — like he was at the 2014 Sochi Olympics — by Jonathan Toews and Shea Weber as alternates. Hockey Canada is going to mine a gold-medal leadership group for the upcoming World Cup of Hockey . He also scored one of the biggest goals in Canadian hockey history four years earlier, burying the “golden goal” in overtime in Vancouver. Crosby, Toews, and Weber — traded from Nashville to Montreal in the off-season — each served as captains for their respective NHL teams last season.

Source: thestar August 25, 2016 15:48 UTC