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Who is the greatest Captain in Leafs history?

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Jamason said:
There seem to be three groups:

-people who look at the overall history tend to pick Apps, Kennedy, or Armstrong

-people who look at only players they've seen, and are old enough to remember the 60s, tend to pick Armstrong or Keon

-younger people who look at only players they've seen tend to pick Sittler, Gilmour, Clark, or Sundin.

Assuming you pick an actual Leaf captain, the only wrong answer is Phaneuf.
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well, Ramage was pretty bad as well. I think it's a toss-up there. lol
 
Jamason said:
There seem to be three groups:

-people who look at the overall history tend to pick Apps, Kennedy, or Armstrong

-people who look at only players they've seen, and are old enough to remember the 60s, tend to pick Armstrong or Keon

-younger people who look at only players they've seen tend to pick Sittler, Gilmour, Clark, or Sundin.

Assuming you pick an actual Leaf captain, the only wrong answer is Phaneuf.
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Maybe the question should have been, Who is the greatest Leaf Captain you have ever seen. Then some of us could feel bad for the rest... LOL

Edit to add: I didn't consider Keon only because he never captained a cup winning team
 
Confucius said:
Maybe the question should have been, Who is the greatest Leaf Captain you have ever seen. Then some of us could feel bad for the rest... LOL

Edit to add: I didn't consider Keon only because he never captained a cup winning team
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But then Apps and Kennedy wouldn't get mentioned.
 
Uncle Wendel would be the best one that I can remember from my lifetime. My father would say Keon.
 
RaFe said:
Hap Day, Kennedy, Apps or Armstrong are probably the best we've had but that's way back and in my lifetime it's without a doubt Sundin with Gilmour as a sure runner-up. I was a tad too young to really remember Sittler.
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I was going to post something similar & I do remember Sittler.
 
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The only Leafs captains in my lifetime who I have seen play is Clark, Gilmour, Sundin, Phaneuf, and Tavares.

So among them only my choice is Gilmour because when I was a kid he was my favorite player.
 
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I can only go on the ones I've seen, so from 86 on...
1. Clark
2. Sundin
3. Vaive
4. Gilmour
5. Tavares
6. Rampage
7. Phaneuf

Phaneuf was a joke of a Captain, and he was chosen for the dumbest reason I've ever heard. Although, the team was one of the laughing stocks of the League at that point, so I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised.
 
In my lifetime I've seen Clark, Gilmour, Sundin, Phaneuf and Tavares as our captains.

Being biased I am going with Mats from this list and that will never change no matter who our future captains will be
 
Clark or Sunday. I just don't think Sudin gets as much respect as he deserves. He carried the Leafs for a very long time. He wasn't a banger like Clark or as aggressive as Gilmore, but he was a tough player who would take a beating and keep coming.
 
Conn Smythe, who was in a position to decide among the captains of the first half century of Leafs hockey, once said that Armstrong was the greatest captain. He was definitely not a great player himself. In his last few years his legs were almost gone and it was sometimes almost painful to watch him skate. He was, however a superlative leader. And quite good at hoisting the Cup!

I am not old enough to have seen Apps and though I may at least have seen Kennedy, I don’t remember him. My late father loved both of them, especially Apps. Apps was probably the best player ever to wear the C for the Leafs. He missed a couple of seasons in his prime in order to serve in WW II.
 
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