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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.

My name is Dmitra Filipovich, and joining me as my good buddy Thomas Trans.

Tom, what's going on, man?

Well, been a fun week of NHL games, I mean, and fun week of NHL news.

The trade deadline was wildly interesting, I thought.

I thought this was a really interesting window into where the

market's evolving, like a really fascinating stress test for teams just across the board. I thought

there were some interesting teams that decided to keep their powder relatively dry. I thought there were

sky high prices on right-handed centermen and right-handed defensemen. In particular, I was

surprised by how affordable, left-handed centermen who are of equal or better quality than

some of their right-handed counterparts, how depressed those

prices were. Did we even see a big-time trade for a lefty defenseman? Like, it just felt like

it wasn't even on team's radar as a priority to add. Yeah, I guess I'd say McKenzie Weeger,

because I believe that he's better on his left side, but he's obviously a true righty.

A true righty, yeah. So, I mean, right-handed defenders, right-handed centermen, those were the premium pieces. You got to be productive. You've got to be tough. You've got to be big. You've got to be able to crash and bang and play playoff hockey. That's what teams will pay for. And if you don't meet that description, like if you're just a solid defensive piece, especially if you're left-handed,

even if you can play center and win some

draws and are an ace on a on the penalty kill, like the value didn't seem to be there for you. So I thought

it was a really, really interesting deadline. I also was surprised by how frequently teams actually were still willing to pay to get off of problems, right? Or at the very least, in the case like Ryan Strom, right, which I sort of view as a part of the Nazim Cadry sale, right? The Flames sort of take on $5 million in salary this year and next to upgrade at Center in the

wake of trading Cadry, but that was a seventh round pick.

Yes.

I thought the extent to which teams are still willing to, if not pay, then give away for

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