Episode 428: The First Domino

The Hockey PDOcast

Sportsnet

Nhl, Sports, Hockey, Sportsnet

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Kent Wilson joins the show to help break down the Calgary Flames side of the Tyler Toffoli trade. Topics include: How to judge moves at the time they happen The timing of the trade Benefits of doing it now rather than waiting Picking Toffoli over other available options Where his greatest impact will be on the Flames lineup The team building approach and going for it Upcoming contractual decisions for Calgary 'Darryl Sutter Hockey' If you haven't done so yet, please take a minute to leave a rating and review for the show. Smash that 5-star button. Each one counts, and helps us out greatly. If you're feeling extra generous, you can also leave a little note about why you recommend people check the PDOcast out. Thanks for the help! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On a beautiful run through the park, on a pleasant day, you can easily get lost.
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0:10.2	It was the pool guy. So obvious.
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0:23.4	to create gear that works for you. It's your run. Brooks, run happy. Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast My name is Dimitra Philpovich. And joining me, my palak, Ken Wilson. Kent, what's going on, man?
1:07.3	Oh, what's up? Not much. It's been an interesting time to be a flames fan. We've asked a little while, that's for sure.
1:12.1	It certainly has. Well, let's jump right into this. Let's talk about the Tyler Foley move and sort of our thoughts on it and try to unpack it as best we can.
1:18.9	So when evaluating trades, I typically try to sort of keep two central tenants in mind when I'm trying to try to judge them.
1:29.0	One, I think we need to go off the information we have at the time and sort of the information the trade was based off of
1:32.8	too often I see people say kind of push the kick the ball down the road by saying, oh, well, we're
1:38.3	going to have to see how this plays out and judge it based on the results. And obviously this is a
1:42.8	results business and how far the flames go in the
1:45.1	playoffs and what they get out of DeFoli and doing so will obviously shape the perception of
1:50.1	this trade. When we look back at it, two, three, five years down the road. But we also, I think,
1:54.8	have to judge it based off of what we know now in terms of the player Tyler DeFoli has been,
2:00.3	how he's profiled and sort of where the flames are at in their know now in terms of the player Tyler DeFoli has been, how he's profiled
2:01.0	and sort of where the flames are at in their organizational trajectory in terms of how they've
2:05.1	been playing this season. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And then the second one is, I think sometimes
2:12.8	we can be a bit too binary in our analysis in terms of asking, okay, did the team improve or not?
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