Avalanche vs. Wild, Sabres To-Do List, and Trades Before Holiday Roster Freeze

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Thomas Drance to talk about Sunday's Avalanche vs. Wild game and what we can take from it, what we'd like to see the Sabres do after hiring Jarmo Kekäläinen to replace Kevyn Adams as their GM, the pair of trades we saw this week before the holiday roster freeze, and why we're keeping a closer eye on the Nashville Predators.

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0:00.0	Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri
0:16.3	Filipovich.
0:19.3	Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich. And joining me, as always, on a Sunday evening, my good buddy, Thomas Strands. Tom, what's going on in?
0:27.1	Dim coming to you live from Philadelphia, where I just watched hours and hours of football and hockey.
0:34.4	It was a Canucks team day off this Sunday.
0:38.0	I got in pretty early.
0:39.7	And so that was just like,
0:41.1	I'll watch sports all day and chill
0:42.8	because it's been a pretty busy week,
0:44.3	as you can imagine,
0:45.5	a pretty busy 10 days since the Vancouver Canucks
0:48.6	traded Quinn Hughes,
0:50.4	got to take a deep breath,
0:52.3	got to watch a ton of games, including pretty scintillating
0:56.3	wild versus avalanche matchup and also just sort of look over some of my notes on Vancouver's
1:04.0	hilarious PDO burst. I mean, this has been one of the funniest most painful road trips I've
1:09.4	ever covered. So been having a blast in advance of the holidays.
1:14.2	It's going to be a fun one.
1:15.4	We waited intentionally to go live right after the conclusion of that aforementioned Wild
1:20.3	avalanche game because we certainly wanted to watch such a marquee matchup and kickoff
1:24.3	today's show with some of our observations, notes, stuff we saw throughout that one,
1:29.7	it's just one regular season game, I think, especially throughout the regular season,
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