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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich. And back for another appearance on

the show is my good buddy, Sean, what's going on, man? Not much, man. It's been, it's been a good

week of hockey and it's more importantly, a good week of life. So I'm happy. I'm happy to be here.

Yes. We're going to see, I don't know if we're going to necessarily be able to get through 32 thoughts today, but we'll see how many thoughts of our own that we can get through because there's a variety of topics that I wanted to bounce around with you, stuff you've written about recently, stuff that's come up this week.

And hopefully we can have some fun with it and see how much ground we can cover in work in our way across the league.

Let's start with this one because it came out a couple days ago and it caught my eye.

And so we started talking about it off the air and I figured it'd be a good and true

into this conversation for us today.

It's Leo Carlson and the Ducks and kind of this news that came out about how they plan to monitor his

workload, I guess, moving forward for at least the next couple months. They've assigned

to the title, his development strength plan. And so apparently they have already sort of scheduled

games in the first half of the season or so where they are going to give him mandated rest where he just will not dress and will not play and it's going to give him

an opportunity to I guess train and build up strength and endurance as he acclimates himself to

this league it feels like it's very reasonable given his age given the team's aspirations for this season where they currently

stand. And also, you know, the commitment they made to him in terms of draft capital, but also

like how big of a part of this organization he figures to be moving forward. So it makes

sense that they would ease him in. It seems like a natural extension of this concept of load

management that we've seen not only across the league but across sports,

especially in the NBA, of course, in the past however many years.

What do you think about this and kind of let's parse this out a little bit in terms of what

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