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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitra Fpovich and joining me is my good buddy, Darryl. What's going on, man?

I'm excited to get going with another episode here back in the saddle after a week off. I'm excited.

Yeah, this will be a fun one. We took a rare week off last week because of all of our attention here on the P.D.O.

As being devoted to the trade-ed-on activity.

But now that it's in the rearview mirror, we are back to our regularly scheduled programming.

And the two of us are going to be doing our new deep dive on a player study.

And what that means is today's subject is a unique one in particular because we've got

only eight games worth of tape on this guy to sink our teeth into.

But I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, Daryl, because I think as you astutely

pointed out the last time we spoke when we covered Shimon Nemitz, the first five to ten games

of a player's career once they get called up and once they just

jump into the action can sometimes provide us with I think the best insight into what that player

is all about right because they're kind of just going and operating off of pure instinct and in a

fascinating way it's almost like the neatest distillation of what they want to do as a player,

ideally, before the NHL gets a hold of them, before they get overcoach,

before all the other things coming to play.

Once they just start playing, it's almost exactly what they want to ideally be in a perfect world.

And so in this case, I think actually doing the first 10 games or so,

a player like we are with Logan

Stancove in here today is a really fun exercise for us.

Yeah, I agree.

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