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

Welcome to the Hockey Pediocast. My name is is Dimitra Filipovich and joining me making his first

appearance on the show, first of hopefully many. It's my good buddy Graham Nichols-Gram. What's going on,

man? Not too much, Demetri. How are you doing? Well, don't lie to me right out of the gate. Not too much.

There's a lot going on in your life as someone who covers the Ottawa senators. It's never a dull time, but in particular now, and that's why we had to have

you on because there's a whole laundry list of topics, I guess, for us to get into today.

You know, I thought there's been so much like turmoil over the past like 15 years.

Like, I'm conditioned. Like, this is the norm, you know? It's just, but yeah, it's, it's been

quite the last few, two weeks. It's, especially for the new

ownership, right? Like, Michael Anlowers, you know, the honeymoon's over. He's, he's finally starting

to get, well, some of the dregs of the Melik era finally cut up with the team a little bit now,

now that he's inherited the club. And yeah, he's dealing with the after effects now? I was going to say, I think it's awfully telling, and maybe it's just the people that I follow that are Sands fans and people covering the team who have

been around it for a while now are going to condition to it. But for any other organization, it feels

like any one of these news stories off the ice would be like a whole, a whole thing. You'd be like,

wow, that is absolutely crazy. And this is just like, I mean, it's obviously stunning, but also it's like, oh, just another

kind of checkpoint along the way.

We've become so used to it that it's always, it always feels like it's something we're kind

of programmed to expect it at this point.

And so to summarize the past week for the senators in case you somehow haven't noticed that

or listening to the show, Shane Pinto gets suspended for 41 games for violating the league's

sports gambling rules.

The team gets disciplined rather harshly for a botched trade that initially took place over

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