Toni awarded: Lydman next captain: Sabres notebook.

Byline: John Vogl

Nov. 1--Toni Lydman doesn't talk much, but it's worth listening when he does. That's part of the reason he's the Buffalo Sabres captain for November.

Lydman was awarded the "C" on Wednesday as part of coach Lindy Ruff's rotating captaincy. Jochen Hecht was October's captain by a vote of his peers, but the coaching staff decided on Lydman.

"We had some good candidates, and often the choice would be guys who get points and stuff," Ruff said, "but we'd looked at it on a game-to-game basis of who we thought was probably the steadiest."

The 30-year-old Lydman is one of the Sabres' elder statesmen, and he's surprised to have …