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Article: O captain! My captain: if Walt Whitman had been the poet laureate of hockey, he might have coined his famous verse about Mark Messier, surely the greatest leader the game has ever seen. (Cover Story).
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- Hockey Digest
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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THE TEMPERATURE READS 81 DEGREES ON A typically hot July day in South Carolina, and a 55-foot sport fishing boat sits almost nondescriptly in the waters off of Hilton Head Island. Its captain, a somewhat novice fisherman, relaxes from his long, exhausting winter--one in which he battled fierce Sharks, dodged dangerous Lightning, fought strong Hurricanes, and even had a run-in with some nasty Ducks.
Those battles took place not on the high seas, but in the not-so-friendly confines of NHL arenas. And the captain was distinguished not by where he stood on the deck of his ship, but by the "C" on his uniform, which made everyone in the building understand his ...