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

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich and joining me is my good buddy, Jesse Marshall. Jesse, what's going on, man?

Dimitri, good to be back for another year of player analysis. Thanks for having me.

It's our first installment of the film club for the 20, 23, 2024 season. It's going to take some getting used to to get the seasons right here.

After a, I would say, Calderworthy debut by us last season,

introducing this concept on the podcast.

We've listened to the people.

And this year, we're going to try to blow it out even further.

So we're going to incorporate some video moving forward.

It's actually going to live up to its name, the film club.

And you can actually watch along with us as we're talking. If you're interested in doing so, I experimented with it last week with Daryl Belfrey.

We did a Jack Hughes episode, which I really liked and people seem to enjoy big shoes to fill for us here, but you can go on the Hockey Ocast YouTube channel to watch that.

Don't worry, though, if you're still consuming this in your car, on your way to work,

doing errands around the house, and you're just listening to it on the podcast feed or on the radio,

you can do so as well. It won't be prohibitive for you. We will make sure to cater it to everyone,

depending on your interest, so you can enjoy along with us here.

So I thought that a good fitting introductory topic for us this season for the first film club of the year would be Connor Bardard.

We've seen now his first three games in the NHL.

I think we've had a chance to go back and work through the tape, see some early

impressions, maybe little subtleties to his game that he's already showing us on tape, little

things that he could possibly adjust as he gets further along into his career as the season goes

long. There's so much for us to dig into here. Such a fascinating player. So Jesse, let's get into it.

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