On the Forecheck · Oct 17, 2020
Fun Friday: The Jalen Ramsey Odyssey
Welcome back to Fun Friday, the show that isn’t a show (because it’s a weekly article) where we take hockey-adjacent concepts and take them way too far (this is a fancy way of saying “Eamon just wants to talk about his dumb ideas with you”).
This week, we’re reminiscing on a quote from 2018, because why not? That year, Jalen Ramsey told the world that given six months of training time, he could become an NHL player; I wanted to put that to the test, so I created him in NHL 18 and watched his career. With the occasional alteration for narrative purposes, this is what I got.
Where We’re Starting