The Chicago Blackhawks are an international team with players hailing from six countries. It’s no surprise that leads to challenges in communicating with each other, so everyone has to find different ways to get on the same page, even if they speak different languages.
ESPN’s Emily Kaplan wrote a fantastic story about this aspect of hockey Wednesday, and it begins by noting how Patrick Kane had tried talking with Russian winger Artemi Panarin when the two began playing together in 2015. One of Kane’s answers? Trying to talk to him in English with a Russian accent.