Feeling humiliated for being left in the net after having let in nine goals in 26 shots during a Canadiens game against the Red Wings, Roy joined the Avalanche on December 6, 1995, together with ex-Montreal captain Mike Keane in a trade for Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky and Andrei Kovalenko.

Following the club's relegation, it was taken over by the Irish Drumaville Consortium, headed by ex-player Niall Quinn, who appointed former Manchester United captain Roy Keane as the new manager.

Before this game started, Vieira had a big confrontation with Manchester United captain Roy Keane, in which Keane confronted him about an incident involving Gary Neville.

Keane was a dominating central-midfielder, noted for his aggressive and highly competitive style of play, an attitude which helped him excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005, having joined the club in 1993.

After Eric Cantona's unexpected retirement, Keane took over as club captain, although he missed most of the 1997 – 98 season because of a cruciate ligament injury caused by an attempt to tackle Leeds United player Alf-Inge Håland in the ninth Premier League game of the season.

As Keane lay prone on the ground, Håland stood over Keane, accusing the injured United captain of having tried to hurt him and of feigning injury to escape punishment ; an allegation which would lead to an infamous dispute between the two players four years later.

Throughout the 2000s ( decade ), Keane maintained a fierce rivalry with Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira.

He would be named captain of the Canadiens for the 1995 – 96 NHL season after the departure of Mike Keane to the Colorado Avalanche in December 1995.

Following Steve Staunton's appointment as the manager of the Republic of Ireland, Keane was appointed captain.

Giovanni Trapattoni, who took over from Staunton, maintained Keane as team captain starting in his first game in charge against Serbia on 24 May 2008 which ended in a 1 – 1 draw.

Previously, Ireland had won 26 and drew 10 of the 36 games in which Keane had scored He broke the record for most appearances as a captain on 26 March 2011, beating Andy Townsend's record and also scored a goal in the process.

A good example of this was in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final when match captain Peter Schmeichel lifted the trophy for Manchester United as club captain Roy Keane was suspended.

Manchester United has had both of these types of captains ; Roy Keane was the club captain on and off the pitch from 1997 to 2005 as he was a regular in the starting eleven, but his successor Gary Neville while nominally club captain from 2005 to 2010 had made few first team appearances due to injuries and in his absence other players ( Rio Ferdinand or vice-captain Ryan Giggs ) were chosen to skipper the team on the field, such as in the 2008 ( Ferdinand was captain as he was in the starting XI, while Giggs was a substitute ) and 2009 UEFA Champions League Finals, respectively.

After Kirk Muller was traded near the end of the 1994-95 season, Keane was named as the 23rd captain of the Montreal Canadiens.

Keane was also captain of the AHL All-Star Team Canada in 2007.

He returned as club captain, taking over from Keith Keane.

Coach Mick McCarthy, who had been Staunton's captain at the country's first World Cup 12 years earlier, selected him for the squad and following the departure of Roy Keane from the squad.

He was made captain by Roy Keane as Sunderland claimed an instant return to the top flight.

Two days later, Roy was traded to Colorado with captain Mike Keane for Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky and Andrei Kovalenko.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

Traditionally, at Wembley finals, the presentation is made at the Royal Box, with players, led by the captain, mounting a staircase to a gangway in front of the box and returning by a second staircase on the other side of the box.

" Marlow introduces the events that led to his appointment to captain a river-steamboat for an ivory trading company.

He became South Africa's second youngest Test captain, after Murray Bisset in 1898-99, when he led the team for the third test at Adelaide but it was an unsuccessful start to his captaincy career as the series was squared.

Meanwhile, Army captain John C. Frémont led settlers in northern California to overthrow the Mexican garrison in Sonoma ( in the Bear Flag Revolt ).

He became captain of the side in 1960, and a year later led his team to a famous 9-3 victory over Scotland at Wembley, ( considered to be one of his finest performances ).

In the next Shield match against Victoria, led by Australian captain Lindsay Hassett, Benaud came in for attack.

He led from the front with his bowling, taking match figures of 7 / 112 in his debut as captain as Australia claimed the First Test in Brisbane.

After Graf Spees captain Hans Langsdorff was told that his stay could not be extended beyond 72 hours, he scuttled his damaged ship rather than face the overwhelmingly superior force that the British had led him to believe was awaiting his departure.

In hundreds of admiralty court cases heard in Key West, Florida, no captain of a wrecked ship ever charged that he had been led astray by a false light.

Despite his injury problems in 1891, few doubted that Grace should captain England in Australia the following winter when he led Lord Sheffield's team to Australia in 1891 – 92.

The prison is bombed and he is rescued by the Discordians, led by the enigmatic Hagbard Celine, captain of a golden submarine.

As captain, Carey led North Melbourne to the finals for eight consecutive years from 1993 to 2000.

In 1863, as captain of the Mortlake-based club, he wrote to Bell's Life newspaper proposing a governing body for the sport that led to the first meeting at the Freemason's Tavern that created the FA.

A chunin captain led a force of 48 ninja into the castle by means of deception.

At the confrontation which became known as the Battle of Ludford, some of Warwick's contingent from the garrison of Calais, led by experienced captain Andrew Trollope, defected overnight.

In 1797, it was anything but peaceful, as Samuel Mason, who was initially a Revolutionary War Patriot captain in the Ohio County, Virginia militia and a former associate judge and squire in Kentucky, led a gang of highway robbers and river pirates on the Ohio River.

At the siege of Toulon, the British were expelled by a French force whose artillery was led by a young captain, Napoleon Bonaparte.

OAS-Métro, the branch in metropolitan France, was led by captain Pierre Sergent.

Holmgren replaced Dave Poulin as captain in December with Ron Sutter, which led to Poulin's ( and later that season, Brian Propp's ) trade to Boston.

On the ice, however, the ' Canes were now out of the doldrums ; led by the return of longtime Whalers captain Ron Francis, Keith Primeau's 30 goals, and Gary Roberts ' 178 penalty minutes, they won the new Southeast Division by eight points and made the playoffs for the first time since 1992.

The Magic were then a team composed of virtually all no name players and little experience which included team captain Armstrong, Bo Outlaw and a young Ben Wallace, along with Coach Rivers led the Magic to a 41 – 41 record, barely missing out on the playoffs.

The young team was led by the goaltending of Nikolai Khabibulin and the scoring efforts of Lecavalier, St. Louis, Modin, Richards, and Ruslan Fedotenko, and also boasted a new captain, former prolific scorer Dave Andreychuk.

Taylor continued as Test captain and led the team to a 2 – 0 win over New Zealand.

However, the Admiralty disapproved of the invention, which led to the fortunate contact with the encouraging American captain Robert Stockton who had Ericsson design a propeller steamer for him and invited him to bring his invention to the United States of America, as it would supposedly be more welcomed in that place.