The Boston Bruins have no captain this season; they opted for three alternate captains.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two of those alternate captains will wear the \u2018A\u2019 while representing their countries in Milan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Sunday afternoon<\/a>, Team Czechia announced Roman Cervenka<\/a> (HC Dynamo Pardubice) as its captain. David Pastrnak<\/a> and Radko Gudas<\/a> (Anaheim) will be the alternate captains.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pastrnak was an alternate captain with Team Czechia at the 2013 and 2014 U-18 World Junior Championships. He has been an alternate with Boston since the 2021-22 season, and he also captained the Atlantic Division at the 2020 All-Star Game in San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n This season with the Bruins, Pastrnak has embraced the role of a playmaker. He has 71 points (22-49\u201371) this season, with 26 points coming on the power play (9-17\u201326).\u00a0<\/p>\n This is Pastrnak\u2019s first Olympic appearance, and he carried<\/a> the Czech flag during the Opening Ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n Team Czechia\u2019s first game is on Feb. 12 against Team Canada. They are playing in Group A with France, Switzerland, and Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ MORE: Pavel Zacha\u2019s Injury Will Keep Him Away From the Olympics<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Shortly after the Czech announcement, USA Hockey announced its leadership group for Milan<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Auston Matthews (Toronto<\/a>) will wear the captain\u2019s \u2018C.\u2019 He is joined by Charlie McAvoy<\/a> and Matthew Tkachuk (Florida<\/a>) as alternate captains.\u00a0<\/p>\n McAvoy was an alternate captain for Team USA at the Four Nations Face-Off last year. He also wore the \u2018A\u2019 at the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship. He has been an alternate captain in Boston since the 2023-24 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n The leadership group remains the same from the Four Nations Face-Off in Boston and Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n McAvoy, like many skaters in the tournament, is making his Olympic debut. He has skated in six tournaments representing the United States before the games in Milan.\u00a0<\/p>\n Team USA opens the Olympic tournament on Feb. 12 with a game against Latvia. They are in Group C with Germany, Denmark, and Latvia.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins have no captain this season; they opted for three alternate captains.\u00a0 Two of those alternate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[3189,154,95,5132,530,2154,2178,58,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-451812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-bruins","11":"tag-bostonbruins","12":"tag-bruins","13":"tag-charlie-mcavoy","14":"tag-david-pastrnak","15":"tag-featured","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116038694201317745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}