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This weekend marks the 2008 NHL Premiere—four regular-season games played in Prague and Stockholm to celebrate the National Hockey League both here and abroad. So far the games have been exciting, and I’m more ready than ever for the rest of the season to start this coming Thursday.

Every year, teams change—people leave old teams, people join new teams, old stars retire, new stars appear—there’s always something different. It’s strange for me to see Jarkko Ruutu playing for Ottawa, especially in these first games against his old team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was always such a staple on that team that it’s strange to see him skating a different direction on the ice.

But the most surprising change for me this season is that Roberto Luongo has become the first goalie to be named the team’s captain in the modern NHL. In fact, it’s actually technically against NHL rules for the goalie to be the captain! So Luongo won’t have a “C” stitched to his jersey, in order to comply with the official rules, but in all other ways he’ll be considered the leader of Vancouver Canucks.

Congratulations, Luongo! You deserve it.

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