MONTREAL — Saku Koivu has reassuring advice for the next captain of the Montreal Canadiens that he himself received from the late Jean Beliveau.
Named to that role at the beginning of the 1999-00 season, Koivu was the Canadiens’ captain for 10 years, matching the team record set from 1961-71 by Beliveau, who passed away on Dec. 2 at the age of 83.
"When I first became captain here Monsieur Beliveau came to me and said, ‘You’re going to be fine. You don’t have to change, you got selected because of who you are’," Koivu said at a press conference at Bell Centre on Thursday. "And certain players and personalities fit that role and they’re comfortable with that, and whoever’s going to be captain here, I would say that just you have to be yourself.
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