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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.

My name is Dmitra Filipovich, and joining me joining me as always for our Sunday special, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on in?

Not much, buddy. It was a fun week, I thought. I enjoyed a lot of the games that we saw this week. I feel like the incredibly compressed Eastern Conference is making for some riveting drama.

And I feel like all of these teams are both simultaneously in crisis and one good week away from us talking about how they're coming on or, you know, the general vibe around their outlook completely flipping.

Obviously, we've had some incredibly injured teams here.

Teams like the Tampa Bay Lightning now where it's really piling up and the devils.

The devils, obviously, with the bizarre Jack Hughes injury.

We got the Adrian Kempe for agent extension on Sunday, which really does formalize

just how grim this unrestricted for agent class in 2026 is going to be, which changes

some dynamics.

So I thought it was a pretty fascinating week all around.

I feel like what you said there off the top where teams are in crisis, but they're one good week away from flipping the vibe. I feel like what you said there are off the top where teams are in crisis,

but they're one good week away from flipping the vibe. I feel like that could apply to all of us. I feel like that's where we're at. Right now, who do you think was more excited by the Adrian Campéin-Campaign-U's hitting? Adrian Kempay himself or Alex Tuck? Ooh, yeah, that's a good question. Alex Tuck is going to be sitting pretty, as everyone is.

I mean, anyone who makes it to July 1, I think is going to have a wild amount of options.

And that's why, too, you're going to hear, I'm sure, some commentary talking about how Adrian Kempay, you know, as a $10 million player now without ever having been a point per game guy over the bulk of his career.

I mean, you know, he's had some seasons, but he's not been a point per game guy over the bulk of his career. I mean,

you know, he's had some seasons, but he's not been a point per game player. And the truth is, is that if Adrian Kempay makes it to July 1, he's such a unique commodity relative to what else

was going to be on offer that, you know, like he's doing the kings of favor, right? I mean, he would have cashed into a greater extent. Um, you know, I understand why he'd lock it in now. LA's a great place to live. You know, there, there's no reason for him not to that. That's another team, by the way, that a week ago, it would have been like, oh, they're precarious here with the

crackin and the ducks sort of rising in the west. They have a good week and now they feel very

stable, especially with this extension kicking in. Point being, you know, these leverage points where

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