Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedocast. My name's Dmitra Filippovich And joining me is my good buddy, John Mattis, John. What's going on. Not a whole lot. Christmas is basically here. And what a great time to catch up, Dimitri. What a great time. It's one of our final shows of 2023. And we are in the giving spirit for the holidays. So let's give the people what they want.

Let's empty the mailbag out.

Let's answer some of the questions we got from the listeners on the Discord channel.

Let's wrap the year up as best we can.

And I thought a good way for us to start would kind of all encompassing,

right, gives us a good view of the league,

gives us a chance to talk about a

variety of different things, is our awards ballots through the 30 game marker. So now that each

teams play that amount roughly, instead of doing the full thing, though, because I think we could

probably do a full week's worth of shows on just that topic. We're going to limit ourselves to just the

very top of each awards category for now. So we're going to give our leaders at this point,

and then our runners up. And then maybe if you want to sprinkle in an honorable mention or someone

that's gaining ground and is jumping into that conversation, I'll give you the optionality for that, but it's not required. So let's start it. Let's let's kind of work

our way up. Let's start with the Calder. I did a big show about 20 minutes or so with our

pal Dom magician about it. So I think my thoughts are kind of documented on that, but I'm curious

for your take on sort of how we handicap the rookie of the year right now and whether anyone can challenge Connor Bardard in your eyes.

I mean, at this point in the season, I think we're at the let's not overthink this and hand it to Badard just based on goal scoring being the most difficult

thing to do in the NHL still. Like, you know, it's not going to matter if goal scoring rates

keep going up. Like, it's still the hardest thing to do. And he's got 12 so far. And then he also

leads in points with 28. And he doesn't have much to work with in Chicago

and the definition of the Calder Trophy is we're looking for the most proficient first year

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