cusimano_brothers 1,655 Report post Posted July 20, 2009 From avalanche dot nhl dot calm The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the organization will officially retire number 19 in honor of team captain Joe Sakic. The club will raise Sakic’s number 19 in a special ceremony prior to the start of the club’s 2009-10 season opener against San Jose on Oct. 1 at Pepsi Center. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Holiday 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2009 From avalanche dot nhl dot calm Everyone saw this coming. I will definitely be watching this game. Cannot miss a legend get his number retired. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miller76 463 Report post Posted July 21, 2009 They may have announced this today or yesterday, but they were talking about this last week. I will be looking forward to this game. It's amazing at the announcements that go on around the league are old news by the the time they announce them, hence the WC. We knew months before they publicly announced that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
titanium2 867 Report post Posted July 21, 2009 No Messier, No Lemieux, No Yzerman, and now no Sakic, it's a sad time. The great captains of the past arent there anymore Lidstrom probably won't be considered in the same category as those four no matter how much Stevie Y would probably argue otherwise. But I think with today's players he belongs in the great category. Zetterberg sets the example in terms of determination while Lidstrom sets the examples in regards to composure and confidence and without confidence you don't have anything. I'm trying to think of some other ones but I couldn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_curre...ernate_captains . Maybe Brind'Amour or Morrow but I'm not exactly a huge fan over any of the others on that list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
