How/when did you get into hockey?

Are you a fan of any other sports?

Do/did you or anyone close to you play hockey?

Has hockey inspired you to try any new activities (e.g. learning to skate)?

If you’re a fan of a team in a city you don’t live in, how did you pick them? If you’re a fan of your local team, do you follow any non-local teams?

Do you go to games? If so, what’s your favorite part of seeing them in-person?

Are you a fan of any fictional hockey media, or just the real thing?

Do you collect merchandise or memorabilia (cards, pucks, jerseys etc)?

What is a moment from a game you’ll always remember watching live?

Do you watch games alone or with others (irl or virtual)?

If you had to add a color to your team’s color scheme, what would it be?

What’s the weirdest place you’ve watched a game?

Have you ever met any players, either by chance or at team signing–type events?

Have you gotten anyone else into hockey?

If you had to commentate a game, would you rather do play-by-play or color?

If you could change, add, or remove a rule from the game, what would it be?

Have you started using any hockey slang in other contexts?

Do you sacrifice sleep to watch games at late/early hours?

Do you have a favorite ultra-specific hockey stat?

What is your favorite jersey from a team you're not a fan of?

Should [insert league here] expand? If so, where do you want the next team?

What is your most hockey player–esque habit irl?

What is one overused question you wish you could make beat reporters stop asking?

Would you rather work for your team's social media (pitch/produce content) or general management (have a say in trades/drafting)?

paywalled article. notes translated by u/Skameleon_fi on reddit (linked in source). I’m copying their translated text verbatim, but please thank them there!

Seth Jarvis was seen in ”his favourite european city” Pori with Jesperi Kotkaniemi. The two were attending a women’s Finnish baseball match. Article incl. photo with Jarvis and his sling after shoulder surgery (partly behind paywall) in Finnish.

Main takeaways:

Jarvis is visiting Finland from Sunday to Thursday before heading to Denmark and Freddie’s wedding.

About his shoulder injury: Jarvis had to have shoulder surgery after the championship celebrations. He won't even have time to recover from that by the start of the upcoming NHL season. ”Hopefully I'll be fit to play when we come to Finland in mid-November to play against the Seattle Kraken. I've known about the injury for about three years, but it hasn't really affected my playing. Now was a good time to get it fixed, though.

"If there's a lockout in the NHL, I'll come play for the Pori Aces," Jarvis says, knowing the team's name and pronouncing it very well in Finnish.

About KK:

The summer is an exceptionally exciting and in many ways uncertain time for KK. It is very possible that he will be traded to another NHL club before the start of next season. However, at this stage everything is still quite calm, and there are no direct transfer rumors anywhere. ”The rest of the summer may then be more urgent and quite interesting in that direction.”

”I should be able to play and I want playing time above all else. You always know that a transfer could happen at any time. It's a business and there's a certain uncertainty about where I'll play next season. The NHL is a tough world in that way," Kotkaniemi reflects.

Purely from a playing career perspective, a transfer would be very important for Kotkaniemi. On the other hand, a transfer always involves many things outside the rink. For example, he and Jarvis moved to the Hurricanes at the same time five seasons ago.

“He’s a good friend of mine. Ultimately, we have pretty similar, easygoing personalities and we get along great when we play golf, for example. He never really has bad days.”

“The hardest part about a potential transfer would definitely be that I’ve lived in Raleigh for five years now. That has given me time to build a lot of life and friendships.”