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

Welcome to the Hockeyedio cast. My name is Ametri Filipovich. And joining me for the Monday special in the PDCast is my good buddy, Daryl. What's going on, man?

Excited to be back. Another really good one today. I'm excited for it. Well, we're coming off a banger episode last week that we did, Sasha Barkoff, and people

really enjoyed it. And I think that was not only us at our best, but that was why we're

doing this show, right? The details, especially off the puck that make Barkoff so special.

And so it was really fun to do that. And this week, we are going to do Jack Eichel. We're going

to talk about his transformation as a player, his glow-up last postseason and how he's carried it over this year.

I think he's such an interesting player for us to study and the reason I wanted to do him is obviously the rushability and his ability to create and transition and the point totals and all of that is certainly flashy and warranting a conversation on its own.

But I think there's so many other

little kind of like details and considerations for us here to parse and study. So I'm looking

to getting into it with you. What sticks out to you with Ico? What do you want to start with in terms

of like things that catch your eye when you watch and play or things that we need to talk about

right off the hop.

Well, I mean, like originally when Jack Eichel first came into league, he was, you know,

he was so electric off the rush.

I mean, that skating was was unbelievable blue line to blue line.

And he played very much like plays his plays his offense, like on the outside,

which is interesting. Like, he, he does a lot of pull-ups. He's on the back wall a lot.

He drives the outside. He'll turn up in the, in the offensive corner and walk up the boards,

like playing off the half wall.

So what's interesting to me about Eichel in what I thought was fascinating in not only his

transformation, I thought last year and then into the playoffs, which I thought he was

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