Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich, and joining me as my good buddy, John Mattis. John, what's going on, man?

Not a whole lot. Just coming off the high of Thursday night's Carolina-Tampa Bay game, what a, what a thrilling post-Olympic battle there for Eastern Conference supremacy.

I did not expect that quickly out of the gates after the Olympic break.

Yeah, it was an incredibly fun game.

We're going to certainly talk about it here right off the hop, but I wanted to, you know,

we're going to do some mailbag questions from our listeners.

I thought it would be a fun way to close out the week.

We're getting back in a swing of things with the NHL post-Olympic break.

And so I got a couple fun ones we're going to run through.

And this is one that I think gives us an opportunity to really get into that from both sides of the ledger.

And it's a question that asks, what's one trade that would make a meaningful improvement for each top contender?

My fandom has me curious what the hurricane should do, given their caps base, prospect and pick arsenal,

and probable inferiority to Tampa Bay in the east, but I'm also curious to hear about what other playoff teams should try to do before the deadline.

Now, I don't want to step on the

toes of Sunday's show too much because we're going to have our annual fake trades with Thomas

Trance and Jack Fraser and we're going to drop them then and it's going to be a really fun time.

So we're going to dive into this in much greater detail then. But I've been in the lab since the

Olympics ended and I've had a bit of free time cooking up as many

different machinations of inspired deals as I can and will unveil them then the reason why I like

this question though I think it really allows us to get a bit of a lay of the land a week out from

the deadline now and start thinking about what teams need and we'll start with the hurricanes

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