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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEO cast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich, and joining me is my buddy Joe Smith. Joe, what's going on, man?

Hey, not too much. How's anything old to you? It's good. It's good also to have you on the show,

remarkably the first time somehow after all these years. So, excited to finally chat and finally get

you on the program and get some good

stuff. You've been writing some fantastic pieces of the Minnesota Wild. I'm kind of curious

about the adjustment for you going from covering the lightning beat for years, especially for such

a successful team, winning all those cups and playing so many meaningful games and then jumping ship and moving on to uh to covering a new team in the wild here yeah it's been great so far

um you know obviously at an amazing time in tampa covered the lightning for 10 years uh you know

as you mentioned a couple Stanley Cubs and like you know four cup finals five covers finals so

made my the summers go

extra long on that end. But obviously to be cover a golden age of lighting hockey with those

fans was, was great. But I think what I've enjoyed with the next chapter here is kind of

have a blank canvas of stories that I can look at in for different angles and maybe my colleague

Mike Russo has done so well for 20 years and that was kind of part of the the allure of changing

beats and and moving was kind of a challenging and reinvigoration wherever you want to call it

and taking your you know your passion another place, a really passionate hockey

market in Minnesota, so which I found that pretty quickly here. So like you mentioned,

it's been fun to kind of dig right in and build some new relationships with the players in the

front office and kind of learn more about an organization I didn't really know too much about until I started working in here.

Well, that's a good segue for us.

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