Soliciting reader questions for Matthew Tkachuk, The Athletic received dozens of suggestions (and, imagine, not a one from Drew Doughty).
The bountiful response was awesome.
Partly because it spared the Calgary Flames’ popular winger from having to answer queries of our own devising, including:
“Why, when the rest of your teammates are stretching at the end of practice, do you collect four pucks, go to centre ice, drop to one knee, and start flinging rising wristers at the empty net?”
Here, then, are a much better batch of questions, courtesy of subscribers:
How many mouthguards do you go through in a year? — Nathan M.
Oh, wow. This year is a lot more than recent years. I think I’m getting better at it, but I’m definitely not. I think I’ve gone through, like, six already. Now I have six (in play) and I just rotate every game … that’s what I’ve been doing the past couple years.
