The Swift Current Home Hardware Midget AAA Legionnaires named their captains for the 2020-21 season earlier today.

Swift Current's Cash Arntsen will serve as the team's captain while the two assistant captains are Ashton Fishley and Drayton Hvidston.

Legionnaires Head Coach Chris Keleher said the selection for the leadership group was pretty mutual between the coaches and players.

"Our coaching staff, we talked leading up to the season starting and kind of had some guys in mind," he said. "Then we got the players input, we felt it was important to do a team vote and see what the rest of the team thought."

This will be Arntsen's third year with the Legionnaires and his last year in Swift Current minor hockey.

"He's a guy whether he had a C or an A on his jersey or not, he's going to lead by example," Keleher said. "He plays the game the right way shift in and shift out. Just his compete and work ethic, it rubs off on guys, he'll go through a wall for you."

All three players are 17-year-olds and have experience playing in the Saskatchewan Male U18 AAA Hockey League. Last year Fishley played for the Legionnaires and Hvidston with the Tisdale Trojans.

Swift Current plays a pair of exhibition games this weekend in Moose Jaw before opening the season at home against the Notre Dame Hounds on November 1.