Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the 2024-25 hockey season is upon us, and with a new season comes changes to TXHT.
Being how TXHT is a smaller operation with between 2-4 people contributing to the site, after every season we sit down and review how things went during the season and discuss any changes we may need to make. And this season there are going to be some major changes taking place.
Major Changes
1. Team Previews
The first major change everyone will notice is the lack of Team Previews. The last few seasons I have ended up writing the majority of them with the rest of the team writing the ones for teams that more interest them. To take a major load off of my shoulders, I’m only writing the Washington Capitals team preview, which will be released on October 11th.
Scott will be taking care of the New Jersey Devils (Oct. 3rd) and Seattle Kraken (Oct. 6th). Dickson will be previewing the Anaheim Ducks (Oct. 10th) and Montreal Canadiens (Oct. 8th). There will not be any other team previews.
2. The Dailys
The next major change everyone is going to notice is the will be the Dailys. There won’t be any this season. The reason for no Dailys this season is a very simple one. It’s too much work for two people who also have day jobs and other responsibilities outside of TXHT. Last season we tried doing a time cut off so Dickson and I weren’t up all night working on the Dailys, and even that still proved to be very time consuming. Especially with all of the prep work that we had to do to get the Dailys ready in advance.
We love the Dailys, we really do, but with how small our team is here, we needed to retire the Dailys for this season. We do hope to bring them back for the 2025-26 season if we are able.
3. Jersey Tracking
Now a major feature for the Dailys was our Jersey Tracking, which is something we take great pride in. We’re going to still provide Jersey Tracking, but on all of our Social Media platforms.
On Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, yes we have a Threads now lol, we will be having all of the Games featured in one post with the exception of games featuring the Utah Hockey Club, due to us not having the Utah jersey graphics at this time. Games featuring the Utah Hockey Club will be given their own post until we are able to get the appropriate graphics featuring their jerseys.
On Twitter we will be doing one main post that will then feature a thread with all of the games with their respective jersey tracking graphics. This is being done due to picture limits on Twitter.
This how the Jersey Tracking graphics will look like for this season:
This is how it will temporarily look like for games featuring the Utah Hockey Club:
With those major changes taking place for TXHT, we also have some exciting new things coming to TXHT for the 2024-25 season.
New for TXHT
1. Capitals Gameday Graphics
In honor of the Washington Capitals 50th Anniversary season, TXHT has teamed up with graphic designer Xavier (@dicnowder) to create new Gameday Graphics for the 2024-25 season. The graphics will feature logos from the past and present as we pay tribute to the history of the Washington Capitals.
You will see historical graphics used for teams that no longer exist, but are part of those team’s histories, to help us also tell the story of the Capitals history through the logos used. We also made sure to have the Gameday Graphics align with the Capitals Promotional and Theme nights too.
The graphics will be shared on game days on all of TXHT’s social media accounts.
2. Focused Projects
New to TXHT this season will be projects that focus on specific topics. Both Michael and Dickson have been spending the last few months working on new projects to be featured on TXHThockey.com.
The first project will be announced tomorrow, October 1st. So stay tuned.
3. Experimentation
Another new thing we will be doing this season here at TXHT is some experimentation. Being how this season I’m (Michael) a full time season ticket holder to the Capitals now, I’ll be trying to push some of the videos and pictures I take at the games from both the players bench during pregame warmups, and from my seat in section 420.
I also look to do maybe video Dailys that would go up on social media as Reels (or TikToks). There’s a lot of possibilities for content creation, and we’ll be looking to experiment quite a bit this season.
With all of this said, we hope that you continue to support us as we enter the 2024-25 season. We view these changes as positive for the growth of TXHT, and we hope you enjoy the content we provide you this upcoming season.
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