Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipp, and join me my buddy. Craig Morgan. Craig, what's going on in?

Busy time of year, as you mentioned, just off the air. It's trade deadlines a week away, and there are a lot of

possibilities with Arizona, and thus far, none of those have panned out. So we're waiting. We're just playing the waiting game right now.

That's right.

It's a bit of gridlock.

Yeah, I think pretty much, and I'm sure you feel the same way, ever since the moment we got that first indication nearly two weeks ago now on a Saturday night that Chikrin was

going to be sitting out for quote unquote trade related reasons and it felt like the trade

was in the works. I've been just like on edge the entire

time. I'm actually slightly selfishly glad it's been such a drawn-out process because it's

given me time to go back and put the prep work in to go back and re-watch all the shifts

this season and really kind of wrap my head around what type of player he is, what is strengths

and weaknesses are all that, because,

of course, throughout the year I'm not necessarily watching every single coyotes game throughout,

but you do. And the reason why I wanted to have you on here is because I don't think anyone has watched more Jacob Chikrin than you have. And so I thought this was a good opportunity for us

to kind of get into the weeds on his game, what he brings

to the table, kind of familiarize the rest of my listeners with what he actually is because

you kind of hear a lot of the generic evaluations about what he is or what he isn't. But I've

actually found a lot of it to be lacking. It seems like a lot of people have just kind of been

helicoptering in and just sort of using generic terms to describe what type of player he is. So I really wanted to get

into all the details of his game with you. But let's start with walking me through the timeline.

So I guess two Saturdays ago now, walk me through like the decision by the coyotes to sit him

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