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

Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name's Dimitra Filipovich, and joining me as my good buddy, Steve Warrior. Steve, what's going on, man?

Hey, what's that to be? Great to be back. We're back for round two. As people listening will surely remember back at the trade deadline. We had you on to talk about the approach, the process for navigating that key part of the NHL schedule from the team

side of things. And then at the end of that conversation, we promise the listeners, we do a similar

thing to preview the offseason when we got to this point of the year. And so here we are. So we're

nothing, if not meant of our word. And I think listeners will really enjoy getting a rare look behind the curtain,

kind of at how an NHL front office prepares for a typical offseason of personnel moves,

getting all their ducks in a row, getting everything in order, everything that goes into

it kind of logistically. So that's what we're going to try and do here today over the next hour.

I think we should start with kind of a general timeline, let's say, in a typical year,

you know, the playoffs end, you start the off season.

I'm sure there's some sort of a, you know, depending on when you get eliminated or how far

your season goes along, there is an initial information gathering period, I assume, right?

Kind of where you're either internally establishing targets, you're having communication

amongst your organization of like guys you'd be interested in, how they'd fit into the team

and the grand scheme of things.

Maybe you're having a line of communication with other executives or player agents, kind

of getting feelers out for where things stand, what the market's like.

What's all that like in terms of just the general sort of initial preparation, I guess,

to get yourself ready for the calm before the storm?

Yeah, I think he hit on that really well they're describing it.

It really is this compilence of all the major events in the sort

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