{"id":900867,"date":"2013-09-12T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/?post_type=sn-blog-entry&#038;p=900867"},"modified":"2013-09-12T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:31:29","slug":"fan-fuel-candidates-to-be-named-senators-captain","status":"publish","type":"sn-blog-entry","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/blogs\/fanfuel\/fan-fuel-candidates-to-be-named-senators-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Fuel: Candidates to be named Senators&#8217; captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>BY DEREK CARSON &#8211; FAN FUEL BLOGGER<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Senators are expected to announce our new captain today for what will hopefully be years to come. Below is a list of likely (and not so likely) candidates who could put the &#8216;C&#8217; on their chest and lead us to glory.<\/p>\n<p><b>Erik Karlsson<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Age:<\/b> 23<br \/>\n<b>Games Played with Sens:<\/b> 233<br \/>\n<b>Total Points:<\/b> 163<br \/>\n<b>Minutes per Game:<\/b> 27<br \/>\n<b>Contract Length:<\/b> Six Years<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re one of those people who think the best player on the team should be the captain, then Karlsson is your man. He&#8217;s the only Sen to win an individual award outside of Alfie&#8217;s Calder Trophy, lo those many years ago. He plays the most minutes out of anyone on the team and is arguably our MVP. The knock against him is that he&#8217;s young and it&#8217;s hard for men to be led by boys.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.sportsnet.ca\/images\/tinyplayer.gif\"> <strong>Have your say:<\/strong> Have an opinion on the news of the day? Better yet, want to become a Fan Fuel blogger? <a href=\"mailto:fanfuel@sportsnet.ca?Subject=Hello%20again\" target=\"_blank\">Email us here.<\/a> | <a href=\"\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/author\/fan-fuel?fanfuel=related\" target=\"_blank\">Read more Fan Fuel blogs here<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b>Chris Neil<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Age:<\/b> 34<br \/>\n<b>Games Played with Sens:<\/b> 779<br \/>\n<b>Total Points:<\/b> 212<br \/>\n<b>Minutes per Game:<\/b> 14<br \/>\n<b>Contract Length:<\/b> Three Years<\/p>\n<p>Neiler is the heart and soul of the Sens. He stands up for his teammates against any opponent and rarely takes a bad penalty. He gets the boys going on the ice and gets the crowd pumped in the stands. If you thought that Alfie&#8217;s quiet style was more a hindrance than a help, you&#8217;ll want Chris Neil to be our next captain. There&#8217;s nothing quiet about him and he leaves everything on the ice, every game.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jason Spezza<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Age:<\/b> 30<br \/>\n<b>Games Played with Sens:<\/b> 611<br \/>\n<b>Total Points:<\/b> 621<br \/>\n<b>Minutes per Game:<\/b> 19<br \/>\n<b>Contract Length:<\/b> Two Years<\/p>\n<p>The heavy favourite for the captaincy, Spezza has been waiting in the wings for a few years now and we&#8217;ve been waiting with him. This would be his chance to finally show us that he can be the leader we need him to be. He&#8217;s matured tremendously in his game and rarely makes a silly turnover anymore. He almost always stepped up when Alfie was injured and carried the team until Alfie&#8217;s return (and then he would relax and make silly turnovers again). With Alfie&#8217;s permanent desertion, now is the time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Chris Phillips<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Age:<\/b> 35<br \/>\n<b>Games Played with Sens:<\/b> 1,073<br \/>\n<b>Total Points:<\/b> 270<br \/>\n<b>Minutes per Game:<\/b> 21<br \/>\n<b>Contract Length:<\/b> One year<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.sportsnet.ca\/images\/tinyplayer.gif\"> <strong>Have your say:<\/strong> Have an opinion on the news of the day? Better yet, want to become a Fan Fuel blogger? <a href=\"mailto:fanfuel@sportsnet.ca?Subject=Hello%20again\" target=\"_blank\">Email us here.<\/a> | <a href=\"\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/author\/fan-fuel?fanfuel=related\" target=\"_blank\">Read more Fan Fuel blogs here<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you thought Alfie&#8217;s leadership style was the right way to go, then Chris Phillips is your man. He&#8217;s a quiet guy who leads by example. He doesn&#8217;t pick fights with anyone but he also doesn&#8217;t have any problem going into a scrum to help out his smaller, weaker teammates. He&#8217;s played over 1,000 games with Ottawa, his entire career, and shows no signs of wanting to jump ship. Think of Phillips as Alfie 2.0 &#8211; a fine choice by any stretch.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jean-Gabriel Pageau<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Age:<\/b> 20<br \/>\n<b>Games Played with Sens:<\/b> 9<br \/>\n<b>Total Points:<\/b> 4<br \/>\n<b>Minutes per Game:<\/b> 11<br \/>\n<b>Contract Length:<\/b> Two Years (RFA)<\/p>\n<p>Why Pageau? Because he&#8217;s the only Sens player, besides Alfie, to have his name become a chant in our rink. Because he singlehandedly put an end to the Habs fans&#8217; Ol\u00e9 chant. Because he&#8217;s a phenom on the rise! Pageau! Pageau! Pageau! Pageau! (Hey, I said some not so likely candidates, right?)<\/p>\n<p>For whoever gets the &#8216;C&#8217;, this year is going to be exciting to see what they can do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Go Sens!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/embed.scribblelive.com\/Embed\/v5.aspx?Id=93438' width='100%' height='200' frameborder='0' style='border: 1px solid #000'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fan Fuel&#8217;s Derek Carson looks at the candidates to be named the next captain of the Ottawa Senators following Daniel Alfredsson signing with the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900885,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1464,1490,1472],"tags":[16233],"coauthors":[2984],"class_list":["post-900867","sn-blog-entry","type-sn-blog-entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-opinions","category-fanfuel","tag-ottawa-senators","teams-ottawa-senators"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sn-blog-entry\/900867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sn-blog-entry"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sn-blog-entry"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sn-blog-entry\/900867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900893,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sn-blog-entry\/900867\/revisions\/900893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=900867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}