page_title: Vancouver Canucks
section_title: Team captains
hierarchical_section_title: Vancouver Canucks / Players / Team captains
caption_attribution_description: English: Vancouver Canucks centre and captain Henrik Sedin during warm-up prior to a game against the Winnipeg Jets at Rogers Arena on February 3, 2015.
context_page_description: The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver. They compete in the National Hockey League as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place and nicknamed The Garage, which has an official capacity of 18,910. Travis Green is the head coach and Jim Benning is the general manager.
  The Canucks joined the league in 1970 as an expansion team along with the Buffalo Sabres. In its NHL history, the team has advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals three times, losing to the New York Islanders in 1982, the New York Rangers in 1994 and the Boston Bruins in 2011. They have won the Presidents' Trophy in back-to-back seasons as the team with the league's best regular season record in the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. They won three division titles as a member of the Smythe Division from 1974 to 1993, and seven titles as a member of the Northwest Division from 1998 to 2013. The Canucks, along with fellow expansion team, the Buffalo Sabres, are the two oldest teams to have never won the Stanley Cup.
context_section_description: There have been 14 Canucks players who have served as the captain. The franchise's first captain was Orland Kurtenbach, who captained the team until his retirement in 1974. The longest-tenured Canucks captains have been Stan Smyl and Henrik Sedin, who each served as captain for eight seasons; each were also the only captains to have spent their entire NHL career with the Canucks. Swedish winger Markus Naslund, who captained for seven seasons, was the first non-Canadian to have captained the Canucks.
  Though goaltenders are not permitted to act as captains during games, Roberto Luongo served as the captain from 2008 to 2010, but because of the NHL rule against goaltender captains, the league did not allow Luongo to serve as on-ice captain. In his place, the three alternate captains were responsible for dealing with officials during games. They also handled ceremonial face-offs. Luongo was not permitted to wear the "C" on his jersey. Instead, he incorporated it into the artwork on the front of one of his masks, which he occasionally wore for the early months of the 2008–09 season.
  Orland Kurtenbach, 1970–1974
  Andre Boudrias, 1975–1976
  Chris Oddleifson, 1976–1977
  Don Lever, 1977–1979
  Kevin McCarthy, 1979–1982
  Stan Smyl, 1982–1990
  Dan Quinn, Doug Lidster and Trevor Linden, 1990–1991  (tri-captains)
  Trevor Linden, 1991–1997
  Mark Messier, 1997–2000
  Markus Naslund, 2000–2008
  Roberto Luongo, 2008–2010
  Henrik Sedin, 2010–2018
  Bo Horvat, 2019–present
caption: Henrik Sedin was named the Canucks' team captain in 2010. Sedin remained as team captain until his retirement in 2018.
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