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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitri Filipovich and joining me in studios, my good

buddy, Harmon, what's going on, man? Pretty good. Just scrambling into the studio last minute here.

Yes. We made it work. We made it work. We're here on time. We're broadcasting. We're back as well.

I took last week off. I had a little trip out to Ireland with the family. It was really

nice. Unfortunate timing on my end because it was pre-planned well before. And then obviously

because of the weekend and the timing of everything, we weren't able to do any shows right after

July 1st to talk about free agency. But the good news is we're here today. We've got a lot to catch up on.

We're going to try to get to everything. There's so much that's happened over the past 10 days or so in terms of player movement and all that that

we're not going to be able to cover everything but we'll do our best to kind of whittle away at

what you and i found most interesting the biggest takeaway is kind of some of the trends we've noticed

so far this off season and we'll just go from there where do you want to start? Because I'm going to give you a blank canvas here to paint on.

What caught your eye? What do you think is most interesting? I know there was a trade in particular

recently that you wanted to get into. Yeah, the Alex de Brinkett trade was really fascinating because

first starters, the trade market, it feels, has been developing slower than at least I expected.

And maybe that's just a product of teams just not having a lot of cap space.

But the fit for him in Detroit is probably the best out of the bunch in terms of when you were thinking of potential destinations.

I mean, right off the bat, the primary concern I had with DeBringt was the cost

of his next contract, right? Especially with the leverage that he had with the qualifying offer.

And I like DeBringket a lot as a player. I was nervous about paying him, let's say, eight and a half

or slightly higher than that even on a long-term deal so the fact that

Detroit was not only first of all able to acquire him for a pretty modest return you're talking

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