Charles Schelle

The Athletic: Silver, not gray | How the Blue Jackets landed on their color choice for the Hometown Remix sweater New look debuts tonight against #GoAvsGo in Nationwide Arena nytimes.com/athletic/7748662…

I asked the lead designer for Fanatics NHL jerseys how much of the designs came from fanatics and how much came from the NHL teams themselves Here is his (condensed bc the video was too large) answer

I'm not Team "Give The Guy Turning 34 Next June Whatever He Wants." That said, via my colleague's reporting, JBB apparently didn't go to the one place my sources have told me Kucherov wanted to go: Above the $17 million AAV that Kaprizov makes. Even after the Carlsson sheet.

Carbery, sorta unprompted, on the current state of the #ALLCAPS, who are 9th in expected goals for (3.28) BUT 25th in expected goals against (3.42), per @Sportlogiq: “We’re a lot better offensively (this season). Game breakers. Ryan Leonard, playing at a high level. Cole Hutson, Tuchy, Kyrou—all these good, good offensive players. You’ve seen what’s happened, though, to our team 5-on-5: we are really good offensively and we are *not* good defensively. So this is my job, and now when you bring in a lot of high-end, difference-making offensive players, we still at the end of the day have to defend. Right now we are sitting near the bottom of the league in expected goals against 5-on-5. We’re great offensively. Wooo, everybody loves that. But at the end of the day, to win in this league, you better be a great defensive team… “A lot of what we’re doing poorly defensively is *actually* at the offensive end, which is crazy to think. I’ll bring you back to the last game that we just played against L.A. Adrian Kempe’s goal. We have the puck. We’re attacking their net and the next thing you know it’s in the back of our net…Cole’s shot gets blocked there. It’s a game of numbers—when a D jumps up, a forward has to cover. If we don’t have a forward covering and now they get the puck, it’s an odd-man rush. “We’re a really good offensive team and I appreciate that and I love that. A lot of things that we did against L.A. the other night were really, really good. But you have to be willing to defend at a high level in this league if you are going to be one of the good teams in this league. That’s a fact. So we have to get better in that area.”

Oliver Ekman-Larsson shares his thoughts on Arizona as an NHL market. "I think it's great if you ask me."

We want to know! 💬

Catherine O'Hara, the singular Hollywood force whose chameleonic brilliance defined a generation of comedy and improv across SCTV, Home Alone, Best in Show, and Schitt’s Creek, has died at the age of 71.

Where do the Winnipeg Jets go from here ? Genuinely asking . Can’t seem to buy one last time They lost 10 straight the team was in Atlanta 😅