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 Dimitri Filippovich, and joining me is my good buddy, Sean Shapiro. Sean, what's going on, man? Too much, man. It's not actually a lot. It's busy week here. I think we're doing this in the morning, basically, because I've got so much going on today. So you were willing to get up early in the Pacific time zone to make this all happen. So you're the real MVP today.

So I'll kudos to you to make it happen.

Well, there we go.

Listen, if the hardest thing I have to do today is getting up and doing a Friday show with you, pal,

I'm living a pretty good life.

So I will certainly not complain.

The plan here for today as we do on Fridays here in the show, we're going to take some listener mailback questions from the Discord channel, so we're going to get into that.

But I've got a good place for us to start before we do some of that, and we're going to kind of organically try to mix questions in here during our chat is your trip to Denver, which you had recently.

Last time I had you on, we teased it.

You wrote up a bunch of

site, a bunch of stuff for the site we both work at at EP Ringsside. The things that obviously

I think I found most interesting and I'm sure our listeners will as well was the Leo Carlson

piece you wrote, right? And sort of looking at how they're managing them this season,

um, the pros and cons of it, I guess, are the benefits they're trying to accomplish from sort

of mixing in this load management angle and schedule days off, which we haven't really seen

much of or at all, uh, from, from NHL teams and top prospects in in the past past and I'm sure it will become more of a thing

in the future but I think there's so much so I pack there so let's just let's just get into

that conversation about kind of being around him being around the ducks your time there

what you saw what you heard kind of everything that that went on during your trip yeah my

favorite part about this Leo Carlson story is

it's it's one of those plans, right, that is it's not unknown. Obviously, it's been,

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