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Ran into @GabeLandeskog92 today! Super nice and gracious enough to stop and take a picture! Can’t wait to see him back on the ice this season! #GoAvsGo

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

Our Captain. Our leader. Our Mark Messier Award winner.

[NHL @NHL]

Gabriel Landeskog was certainly not expecting a second award to appear when he sat down for this interview! 🏆

Watch as Landeskog's family surprises him with the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for the way he exemplified perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey. #NHLAwards

[Guru @DrGuru_]

Greatest Shooter EVER

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@FriedgeHNIC 🐐

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@DraftDummies Back from the dead

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@tizzy1986 @runwriteAarif It’s not entirely on him. Ask McDavid and Celebrini about their performances in that game. Oh and yeah maybe the rest of Avs team.

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@DailyFaceoff Tough break? It’s called interference

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@Kosty791 Painful way to end the year but a lot of great moments too. All about perspective in the end. Hard to look at it that way right now

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@Steve_Dangle Just leave us alone, Steve. 😭

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@jessemontano_ Classless

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

In 2016, Gabriel Landeskog opened up about becoming the captain of the Colorado @Avalanche at 19 years old: “Right before training camp was supposed to start, I was relaxing with some friends in Toronto when I noticed that I had a voicemail from my teammate Milan Hejduk.

I wasn’t expecting a call from Milan.

When I was a kid growing up in Stockholm in the early 2000s, I used to watch Milan tear it up with my hero, Peter Forsberg, on TV. When I got drafted by the Avalanche, I got to actually know him and had the pleasure of sitting right next to him the locker room. I just tried to absorb everything he did.

I listened to the voicemail and Milan said, ‘Hey Gabe, let me know when you’re back in Denver, because I want to have a meeting.’

I figured it was a ‘players only’ meeting to plan out the season and what was expected of everyone. I was 19 years old and had just finished my first season in the NHL, so I was just excited to get back to Colorado and be around the guys again.

When I got back to Denver a few days later, Milan texted me to tell me to meet him at the arena in the morning. When I arrived, I noticed that there weren’t many cars in the parking lot. I figured I must be early. Then I walked into the office, and the only people there were me, Milan and Joe Sacco, our coach at the time.

I genuinely had no idea what was going on, so I just tried to keep a poker face.

We all sat down and Milan started speaking, and I almost couldn’t comprehend what he was saying.

He said, ‘You know, Gabe, my career is starting to come to an end, and I think you’re the one to take over for me as captain.’

It really came out of nowhere. I hadn’t even heard any rumblings that it was a possibility. I didn’t know what to think. After the initial shock, I was overwhelmed with feelings of pride. It was so humbling that Milan and our staff believed that I was the man for the job. They were making me the youngest captain in @NHL history [at the time].

I remember I called my dad from the parking lot right after the meeting and told him the news, and I was at a loss for words.

He was just as shocked as I was.

From that day on, I felt such a tremendous responsibility to live up to the bar set by former Avalanche captains like Milan, Adam Foote and Joe Sakic.” https://t.co/yuFWKP2P5H

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@JLazzy23 Thanks Jonny

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@ProducerDrew_ Throwing in the towel already? Pretty sad man

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@LucaCelebre21 Manson screened Wedgie, not great

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@MackForHart PK: “Vegas’s bottom 6 is going to beat on the Avs bottom 6.” Give me a break, the guy somehow hasn’t watched a single Avs game

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@DLineCo

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@AltitudeSR @Avalanche @ConorMcGahey @RycroftMark @ConorMcGahey 🐐

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@AdoHernandez27 This guy. Always runs his mouth and it comes back to bite him 😂

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@Kosty791 NEVER IN DOUBT!