We didn’t learn a lot of American geography. Logan Couture: I didn’t know where it was. I knew Napa was close, and San Francisco. I knew Santana Row, and the area around it. ![]() What did you know about San Jose before moving here?Įrik Karlsson: I came here at least a few times. ![]() Marc-Edouard Vlasic wins the award for making me laugh the hardest with his very unexpected response. And I thought, what if I ask a bunch of Sharks what they got wrong about living here? So when I had to think of an idea for a “What I Got Wrong” story, I remembered that chat with Sturm. I knew about the spaghetti at OJ’s and the burritos at La Vic’s, but there is so much great food here, and so many people, a lot of whom I’ve never met, have helped me discover it. My expectations were, let’s call it measured, after living in Manhattan for most of the past 10 years. The other thing I got wrong was the food. I love that there was snow on the mountains behind the foothills on March 30, even if there has been a lot of rain in 2023. I love that my collection of hoodies and vests and other spring/fall-related clothes didn’t get left in boxes at my mom’s house in Western Pennsylvania. ![]() I thought it was going to warm and … slightly less warm. We have what I’d consider three seasons here, which is more than I expected. I did a lot of research before actually moving out here, but a few things still surprised me. The day I was offered the opportunity to move here and cover the Sharks, I didn’t know a lot about the area - all of my time in San Jose was spent downtown. I’d been to San Jose for work a few times, to San Francisco for work once and spent a couple days at an NHL owners’ meeting on the 17-mile drive (Spanish Bay, though the hotel I stayed at felt a million miles away from the majesty of those golf courses, both literally and figuratively). Save for a 10-month hiatus in Charlotte, North Carolina, I spent my entire life living in the Northeast, or close enough to it - Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C.
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