‘The 21-year-old becomes the 19th full time captain (27th with rotating captains) in franchise history replacing Brian Gionta, who last captained the team in the 2016-17 season. Eichel was named as an alternate captain to start the 2017-18 season along with Zach Bogosian, Kyle Okposo and Ryan O’Reilly, but the team went without a captain.’