COLUMBUS, Ohio — In the weeks leading up to the 2023-24 season, the Blue Jackets held a private party at a secret, members-only club in Grandview Heights, just a few miles from downtown Columbus.

The party was two or three hours deep and beginning to thin out when young Jet Greaves, then a minor-league goaltender in the Blue Jackets organization, worked up the courage to approach a table where legendary goaltender and broadcaster John Davidson was sitting with his wife, Diana.

“Jet walked up and said, ‘Would you mind if I talked with you for a couple of minutes?'” Davidson remembered.

“So we sat there, the three of us, and we must have talked for 45 minutes. Jet was so interested in some of the NHL’s older goaltenders — Dominik Hasek, Mike Richter, Patrick Roy, that whole generation — and even the generation of goalies before that.

“We had a great discussion. He knew a lot about these guys already, you could tell. He is truly a student of our game, and that became really clear to me that night. And if I’m being honest, I bet I enjoyed our talk probably more than he did.”

That was the first of many in-depth chats between Greaves, now the Blue Jackets’ 24-year-old starting goaltender, and Davidson, the 72-year-old former club president no longer involved in the club’s day-to-day business.

When Davidson fills in for TV analyst Jody Shelley a couple of times per month — next up, Monday’s game in Ottawa — Greaves and Davidson can be found talking at Greaves’ stall along the back wall of the Blue Jackets’ dressing room.

“I’m trying to learn as much as I can from his experiences,” Greaves said. “There’s so much there, so much he’s been through. He had an amazing career, and he’s been around the game for a long time. It’s just … honestly, I just think I’m incredibly fortunate that he’s so willing to share, and I’ve already learned so much.

“There are some things that are unique to the position that probably only goaltenders could discuss. But there are some things I can ask him that would just be good advice to anybody in any profession, really, not just hockey players.”

Jet Greaves is slamming the door early in this one! 🚪 pic.twitter.com/Nc82q9mFrN

— NHL (@NHL) November 22, 2025

If you know Jet Greaves even a little bit, none of this should be a surprise.

Greaves is the rare goaltender who doesn’t mind a game-day conversation in the dressing room. He’s so grounded and so polite — the product of his parents’ upbringing, he said — that he’s been known to thank media members after fielding a series of questions in a post-game scrum.

He reads. He plays chess. He has a natural curiosity. He’s also a massive sports fan. Not just today’s players and highlights, but the history of the games … baseball, basketball, boxing and, of course, hockey.