‘”I think he’s been the best captain I’ve had,” Zemgus Girgensons, the longest-tenured Sabres player and an alternate captain himself, said. “He’s one of the guys that I look up to and I think a lot of the success here is because of Kyle and the way he handled things. I think he held the team together. “The times in need he was always there. He’s a part that was huge for us.”‘