Success in hockey, perhaps more than any other team sport, requires individual leadership to emerge from within the team.
A single man with a letter “C” stitched onto his jersey has the ability to define a team’s work ethic, style and even its very identity. A team’s coach can try to install any system he wants and preach about hard work and sacrifice until he’s blue in the face. But more often than not, it’s the team’s captain executing on the coach’s plans that really sets the tone on the bench and on the ice.
Detroit Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg has exhibited an MVP-worthy performance through his team’s first 25 games — so why hasn't the rest of his team followed suit?
Zetterberg is currently ranked third in league scoring with 28 points (10G, 18A) and is on pace to match his career-best record of 92 points set in the 2007-08 season.
He is a team-best plus-10 and leads the team by a country mile in shots with 91.
Looking beyond the stats, Zetterberg is virtually incapable of giving anything less than 100 percent ...
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