“I switched (my equipment) to white because somebody told me maybe it’s the color. But I would try different materials, everything, different companies. We wash everything. The equipment, we would rewash. Like special things, they give me different detergent than the team. But everything was helping a little bit, but nothing really big.”

“Oh, yeah, yeah, man, it itched, I learned how to handle the itching during the day, but the worst thing is at night because when you sleep. My wife sometimes hold my hand. It’s like, ‘You’re scratching yourself again.’ After you wake it up, it’s like bloody sheets or something. So, yeah, there were those times.”

-Marian Hossa on dealing with a skin issue. Scott Powers of The Athletic (paid) has much more on and from Hossa.