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

Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast.

My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me as my good buddy, Daryl Belfry, Daryl.

What's going on in?

Feeling much better this week.

So I'm excited to get into this with me feeling 100%.

I'm excited.

Well, if that was life last week was you at less than 100%, then I'm scared to see what today's going to look like.

But I think it's going to be a barn burner.

And this week's muse is Matt Barzal.

We've been teasing it for a couple weeks now.

And I'm really excited to get into this one for a variety of reasons.

I think he's a very interesting player, certainly.

He switched positions this year, which we're going to get into and sort of the ramifications of that. He recently had a coaching change, and I think that's been a big part of his journey in

NHL over the past five or six years. And then most notably, he's been a player who's kind

of generally confounded us, I think, because you watch him play and the talent is so visible

and abundant, yet at the end of the year, you look at the production

and at least in terms of counting stats and points, it lags a bit behind what you'd expect

from a player who looks the way he does. And so we're going to get into all that stuff and

unpack it and how it all intertwines. I'll start with this. This was a player that generally I'm

like, Daryl, who do you want to talk about? And then I give you a bunch of guys and you pick one.

In this case, this was a player that I think you had highlighted and really wanted to highlight and to talk about on today's show.

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