Head coach Jared Bednar said the team will not name a new or interim captain while Gabriel Landeskog is out for the 2023-24 season.

While other teams are naming new captains for the season, the Colorado Avalanche will not be handing the "C" over to anyone new.

Head coach Jared Bednar said he considered the possibility of a change of captaincy, but after getting such positive news from the current captain, Gabriel Landeskog, he decided against it.

"We have our leadership in our room, whether they wear letters or not. We'll go with the same group as last year — (Cale) Makar, (Nathan) MacKinnon, (Mikko) Rantanen — those guys are perfectly capable of leading our group. They're the guys that spend the most time on the ice," Bednar said on Media Day. 

But the core group isn't the only players Bednar looks to lead the team. There are other individual position players that step up in their respective departments. 

"And then we have a bunch of leaders, as well, like (Andrew) Cogliano, (Devon) Toewser, to name a few. The list goes on really in the specific departments," Bednar said. 

Team leaders lead differently

The three core players have different leadership styles but they have seemed to be effective in their roles. 

"I'm just going to continue to be myself and hopefully that's a good leader. I just don't think you're trying to be anybody you're not, I think the guys can see through that pretty quick," MacKinnon said at the Media Day conference. "I'm just trying to lead by example on and off the ice, continue to do the little things I do every day to try to help myself and my teammates be the best, and that's all I can really do."

Rantanen said MacKinnon and Cogliano are more "motivational talkers," while he aims to talk about the plays more so and pinpoint what needs to be worked on. 

"I try to be vocal, but not too much. Because too much is too much. When I feel like we need to go through something as a team or individually — I like to talk about the plays more.

"I try to keep it loose, obviously there's times when it's tougher when we lose games it's not easy to get through it. Sometimes you got to go dig deeper a little bit. But I try to keep it loose a little bit, keep the positivity out there. It's a long season, so if it gets too serious, it's not good," the 27-year-old Finnish forward said after day two of training camp. 

Colorado is in good hands as far as leadership goes while its captain continues to recover from knee cartilage surgery. Landeskog said he is progressing well and may not be with the team every day, but he'll still be supportive from afar while he continues to get healthy.