This question has been posted in ask.funtrivia.com in early April, and has everybody stumped. I've come to a dead-end with google, and there aren't any NHL books downhere. In fact I can't even find when numbers per se were first worn. When did the first NHL Team Captain wear a 'C' on his jersey?

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it's still stumper

I don't know if this helps any, but I found this in the NHL Rule Changes section at NHL Archives

1925-26: Team captains only players allowed to talk to referees

http://www.lcshockey.com/archive/league/rulechange.asp

I would presume that if they weren't already wearing the Captain's "C" before that, then they would have started wearing them at the start of the 1925-26 season so it would be easy to identify which player could talk to the referee.


I will keep looking.

good luck! I've tried everything
no-one's found it yet, either here or over at AskFuntrivia.com