Jackie Redmond is one of the NHL’s top media prospects and now she’s landed a huge gig with WWE.
Redmond is joining WWE’s broadcast team and will be the new co-host of Raw Talk and Talking Smack. Redmond will fill the role previously held by Charly Caruso, who recently left WWE to join ESPN.
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the NHL schedule over the last two years, but things are somewhat getting back to normal. On Wednesday, the league announced the dates for some of its biggest events of the season. While the dates are pushed back a little, it’s not nearly as late as last season.
For example, the start of free agency will start two weeks later than a normal year, but will begin two weeks earlier than last July.
It’s progress people!
The NHL, in conjunction with Adidas, announced in a press release on Monday that the league is introducing new sustainable jerseys during the 2021-22 season to try and do its part to end plastic waste.
The jerseys are made partly out of recycled plastic and will be the new authentic jersey of the NHL. The jersey line is entitled ADIZERO Primegreen. The sweaters will contain “a minimum of 50 percent recycled content.”
The jerseys are part of Adidas’s goal, as a company, to completely eliminate use of virgin polyesters by 2024.
As Capitals’ Training Camp got underway Thursday morning, general manager Brian MacLellan spoke with the media and revealed that the Capitals will be fully vaccinated in two days.
This news comes a week after NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly spoke at the NHL Media Tour in Chicago, revealing that 98 percent of the league’s players will be vaccinated prior to the start of the season. If you do the math that means 10-15 players in the league will be unvaccinated to start the year.
Now, we know that none of those players will be from the Capitals.
By Chris Cerullo and Ian Oland 4 weeks ago
ESPN is known for its fun and ridiculous sports commercials — Late Nite Filings, anyone? — but the network decided to take a different tack in its first campaign promoting the return of the NHL this season. The ad is entitled All for Hockey and it’s super serious.
“‘All for Hockey’ embraces the intersection of hockey and humanity, telling the story of the game of hockey from the perspective of a wide variety of fans,” the sports leader said in a press release. “ESPN worked with agency Fallon and director Michael Lawrence to capture that sentiment, focusing on creating real intimacy in each scene.”
Take a look for yourself.
From August 13 to September 13, Boyan Demchuk — a Toronto-based producer, designer, and video editor — released a new jersey design concept for every team in the NHL. Entitled the DARKOUT jersey series, Boyan made every club’s jersey color either black or an overexaggerated dark shade of its brand color. Then utilizing stripes, high-contrast colors, and sometimes neon, Boyan tried to use parts of the franchise or city’s history to come up with creative, memorable solutions.
Several highlights include the Florida Panthers (Miami Vice colors), Toronto Maple Leafs (logo includes Needle), and the Calgary Flames (gradient stripe on chest). Boyan’s DARKOUT Capitals sweater includes the team’s Weagle logo on the crest and utilizes jersey concepts from the team’s navy blue third jersey from last season.
Boyan tells RMNB that the Dallas Stars’ blackout jersey from last season was what motivated his series. His designs are presented below with permission.
By Ian Oland 1 month ago
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly spoke to the Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli at the Player Media Tour in Chicago. Daly revealed that 98 percent of the league’s players will be vaccinated prior to the start of the season.
That sounds great until you do the math: 10-15 NHL players are not getting vaccinated. That decision could create a headache for both the teams and players themselves as they head into Game One of the 2021-22 regular season.
Turner Sports announced more of its NHL broadcast team on Tuesday and one Capitals media member is getting a huge opportunity. Tarik El-Bashir, who has contributed coverage of the Caps over the last decade via The Athletic, Washington Post, and NBC Sports Washington, has been hired as a contributor.
“I’m so excited to be a part of this amazing team!” El-Bashir said in a tweet. “Thanks to everyone at Turner for the opportunity. And, yes, I’m still going to be covering the Caps full-time for The Athletic. Let’s go!”
Tarik joins Jackie Redmond and Jennifer Botterill as the other Turner Sports NHL contributors.
The NHL and NHLPA finalized their COVID-19 protocols for the 2021-22 season and a key segment of those protocols will give teams the ability to suspend unvaccinated players who are “unable to participate in club activities.”
Basically, if an unvaccinated player cannot travel somewhere due to that place’s COVID-19 regulations, teams can suspend that player for however many days they are away from the team which would obviously involve a forfeit of salary.
By Chris Cerullo 2 months ago
After months of negotiations, the NHL, NHLPA, IOC, and International Olympic Committee have come to an agreement on Olympic participation. NHL players will be allowed to play.
Kings reporter John Hoven reported the news after he got his hands on an NHLPA memo, which spelled out the details.
