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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy

Darryl. What's going on in? How could it today not be a great day when we're going to go digging

into the dog? I just don't know how it can get much better than this. It really can. We're going to do

Nathan McKinnett today, a player that I've been eyeing for us all year,

and I wanted to save it until we got later into the season because I just wanted the sample

size to build up for this year, for the tape we could dive into, but also I thought it was kind

of almost cheating because you have such inside knowledge and such a wealth on this player in particular that I wanted to test you with some guys that we had to work on a little harder on first before we got into the fun stuff here with McKinnon.

And he's a player who, you know, he's having a season for the ages right now.

I want to get to this point, the work that's been put in,

the refinement of the game, everything he's added in terms of tools throughout his career so far.

And so hopefully we're going to get into all that.

And I think as people who listen to this tell me sometimes, like they can tell that I have a particular sort of like sparkle in my eye

or kind of a tone to my voice when we do these shows

because they can tell that I'm just giddy talking to you about this stuff,

nerding out, picking your brain,

talking into what makes these players so special.

I think this one's gonna be particularly so because of that

sort of inside knowledge you have into this process and kind of hopefully we're going to be able to get into all that.

So where do you want to start with Nate and what do you think is sort of the central focus of today's show that we really need to hit on first?

Well, I don't know if this is the central focus, but it's definitely, for me, one of the most important things to talk about when you talk about Nathan McKinnon.

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