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The Hockey PDOcast

Mailbag Questions about New Systems, Defensive Results, and How to Fix Things

The Hockey PDOcast

Sportsnet

Sportsnet, Sports, Nhl, Hockey

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Jack Han to answer listener questions about implementing new systems during the season, the impact of handedness on defensemen, who drives a team's underlying defensive results, and how to fix notably lagging things like Minnesota's penalty kill, Pittsburgh's power play, and New Jersey's 5-on-5 play. If you'd like to participate the conversation and get in on future editions of the mailbag, you can do so by signing up for the Hockey PDOcast's Discord server here: https://discord.gg/a2QGRpJc84

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:18.6

Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast. My name's Dmitra Filipovichic and joining me is my good buddy Jack Han. Jack, what's going on?

0:25.5

Thankful that my son's first cold is not worse than it is.

0:30.0

Yes, we're all there. Well, your voice sounds great. Hopefully my voice sounds good. I'm

0:34.6

remote today. We're recording this from a hotel room in

0:38.2

Seattle here. I'm here on a Black Friday to take in Canucks Crackin this evening. So hopefully

0:43.7

all goes smoothly. But this is the, this is the beauty of podcasting and radio. We can, we can make it

0:49.3

work with technology these days. So, uh, we're going to do a Friday mailbag. We've been doing these

0:53.4

for the past couple weeks now. They've been doing these for the past couple

0:54.2

weeks now. They've been really fun, nice way to get the listeners involved, make it a bit of an

0:58.6

interactive process and end the week with some fun, thought provoking stuff. If you want to get

1:03.3

involved with a future edition of the mailbag, since we're doing these every Friday now,

1:07.7

just join the PDOCast Discord server where we're going to be taking today's

1:11.9

questions from a lot of good stuff from our listeners, a lot of good conversation going on in there.

1:17.0

So the invite link is in the show notes. If you can't find it, just shoot me a message. I will

1:20.5

gladly pass it along and get in there and join the community where we're building up there.

1:25.7

Okay, Jack, here's the first question from David Castillo, friend of the podcast.

1:29.7

I've been thinking about weak defensive teams, in particular,

1:32.8

their weak defense within their top centers individually.

1:35.6

Conversely, a team like the Dallas Stars, for example,

1:38.5

doesn't necessarily have an all-world blue line,

1:40.7

but their centers are all strong defensively,

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