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 as my good buddy Mitch Brown, Midge. What's going on?

Not too much. Just watching some Maddie Baneers and being very excited for what we're about to talk about.

Oh, Maddie Baneers tape. That's really exciting. I feel like I have this whole list of things that I want to talk about with you,

but then now that you just mentioned Badi Badeers, I feel like we need to talk about him

quickly and just put everything else to decide and we can jump into my original planned

content and program in a second. What do you see in on Baneer's tape?

Well, so the first thing that stands out is just how good he is at turning defense

into offense, how he gets down low, how he supports the play.

And then what really stands out about him, especially compared to most players in the

NHL, not just rookies, is how he instantly knows the next play.

He instantly takes the puck off the board, steps to the middle,

he manipulates the forecheck, then he tries to gain the zone.

You see a lot of like east-west movement from him, but it's always full steam ahead.

So just an incredibly intelligent manipulative player who's able to turn

what seems like relatively uninteresting situations in the defensive

zone into high danger offense in a moment.

It's wildly impressive to me how advanced his game already is, right?

I think that's going to be kind of a theme that we hit on throughout the show.

But for me, like, watching him step right into the league, he played the 10 games or whatever

last year out of college, and then now this is his first full NHO stint, just seeing that exact

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