Hashmap from user input

Question

I am writing a battleship program and I have created an array of xycoordinates in my board class, in my player class i created a method to accept user input for an xy coordinate to place the ship. In my game class (where the main method is in) I want to be able to put this coordinate in the ship hashmap with the ship name.
I am not sure how to get the user input from my method in the player class to the hashmap in the game class.

Answer 1

I was originally calling this method when the player selected to play the game. I have created the method in my player class:
public String placeBships() {
          System.out.println("Enter xy coordinates for: Battleship");
          Scanner blocationxy = new Scanner(System.in);
          String bxycoordinate;
          bxycoordinate = blocationxy.next();
          System.out.println("You Chose " + bxycoordinate);
          return bxycoordinate;
how do make it return to the Game class?
I am not sure how to load it to my hashmap "ships". I tried ships.put(myplayer.placeBships());