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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich and joining me in studio on this

Friday closing up a week in style. It's my good buddy, Harman Dial, what's going on then?

I'm pretty good. How are you? I'm good. You've been busy. You've been picking up the slack for

that slacker Thomas Drands not really doing anything over at the athletics.

So you've been covering them and writing up a storm.

And we're going to talk about a few of the recent bangers that you put out this week.

So that's we're going to kind of recap them.

I'm going to give you my thoughts on it.

We're going to extrapolate it and really get into good conversations.

Let's start with the Conoverdart piece because I thought it was really fascinating and we were talking before we went on the air. You wanted to approach it from the lens of

providing some sort of added context or nuance and in preparation for what next season's going to

look like beyond this guy's really good. He's going to score goals. Everyone likes Conner-Burdard,

right? Because that, I mean, it's so hard to nitpick his game at this point just because he's been to score goals. Everyone likes Connor Burdard, right? Because that, I mean, it's so hard to

nitpick his game at this point just because he's been talked about for so long now. The stats

speak for themselves. The highlights speak for themselves. Everyone is so excited to see him at

NHL level that it's easy to get caught up in that. But we know that there's going to be some sort of

challenges that he's going to encounter once he steps into the NHL next year, especially if he's

playing for a team like, let's say, the Blackhawks or something that has so much work to do

to build around a roster around him. Absolutely. The approach I wanted to take was almost looking

at it as if you have this 5 foot 10 forward who doesn't blow by

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