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

Welcome to the Hockey-Pedocast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich, joining me is my good buddy Thomas Hakey. Thomas, what's going on then?

I'm good. I'm good to meet Trey. Good to finally link up.

I'm very excited for this one. I'm not saying this just because you're on. I've been talking about it on the show throughout this year. You're one of my favorite color

commentators in the game right now. I've been tuning into a lot of Islanders games to watch Matthew

Schaefer, of course, but I particularly look forward to the Amazon Prime national broadcasts

here in Canada every Monday. And I've been looking forward to setting this one up with you for

quite some time now. We're finally getting around to it. And the reason why I wanted to have you on amongst many other things is I want to get into a full Matthew

Schaefer conversation with you because I think arguably no one is more uniquely qualified to talk

at length about his rookie campaign and just what an impressive undertaking. It's been than you,

not only because you played the position for the Islanders for an earlier decade, but then you get this front row seat

to watch him on the broadcast on a nightly basis. And I just want to break down all the stuff

we're seeing from him, what's required of him on this Isles team, and then how he's performing

within it. What's been the most impressive part of watching this 18-year-old defenseman step into the league

and just take over the way he has so far?

Yeah, there's so many different things.

And obviously, everyone's talking about his skating because you don't see a guy really skate like that.

It's the way he thinks the game.

And I think the biggest takeaway that I have is his understanding and veteran presence

in areas that it takes not just teenage defensemen, but guys that are 21, 22, 23, 24

to understand like timing, circumstance in a game, when to go, when not to go, maybe subtle little

things in a corner of keeping a puck going and breaking it out. He does all these things that other guys take so much time to be taught and he does it naturally

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