Awhile back I posted a piece that included a little note on the Columbus Blue Jackets and their penchant for assigning leadership roles to players. At the time the Blue Jackets had five alternate captains, although a few were on the IR at the time. Since then I've had a running joke going with Yotesgurl over at The Good, The Bad, and the Coyotes about who the Jackets should name an alternate captain next (either the equipment manager or bus driver). I can only assume the Blue Jackets management has been listening, because not only did they activate one of their alternate captains from IR (Fredrik Modin), but they named a sixth alternate captain.

The Columbus Blue Jackets' captain is, of course, one Rick Nash. Helping him out are the the guys wearing the 'A': Fredrik Modin, R.J. Umberger, Antoine Vermette, Mike Commodore, Rostislav Klesla, and the newly minted Derek Dorsett. That's six. Six alternate captains. Surprisingly absent from this list is newly acquired Chris Clark, who actually was a captain (Washington Capitals) until recently.

How does this team pick who wears 'A's on any given night? Draw names from a hat? Take a vote? Hold a contest (two players who pick correctly the number of times Doug MacLean says "Rick Nash" in a segment of Hockeycentral)?