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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name's Dmitri Filippovich and me here in studio, my good buddy, Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

I'm very excited for today's show. I'm very excited to welcome a very special guest to the PDO cast. Well, I'm going to do the intro as the host, but yes, you're right.

We ended last season with our summer series of interviews with big name guests

featuring a whole cavalcade of people in the game.

And as part of that process, there was one particular name.

We were very keen to include because of how much his team helped define the 24, 25 NHL season.

And there were summer and offseason logistics. We weren't able to make it happen at the time in July.

But now that we're back at it prepping for the start of this new season, we knew we had to circle back and make it happen

with this man to kick off the season with a banger. And so joining us today is the GM and

president of hockey ops of the back-to-back, reigning, defending Stanley Cup champions,

the Florida Panthers, Bill, how's it going, man?

Morning or good afternoon. Thank you for having.

We're very excited to have you on.

Most recently, as part of the series, we had Bill Armstrong on, we had Caldubis on previously.

I think Thomas and I are both fascinated about the team-building approach,

and you've been in Florida now for five years as your six-season.

And I think we just want to get into sort of the process of putting together this group that's

gone on this four year run of winning the president's trophy first in 2022, then making it to

a cup final the following year and then winning it all the previous two seasons and sort of

everything that went into that.

I think I want to start off with this because

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