Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filippovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Gerald Belfried. Daryl. What's going on, man? Ready to go.

So this is going to be a fun one. We're going to do Sidney Crosby today. Year 19 of his NHL career on pace for 47 goals, which is the best clip he's been on since 2016, 17 when he scored

44 and 75 games. He's over a point per game. The reason why I say this is going to be a really

fun one is because obviously there's a lot of material here for us to sink our teeth into,

but I think especially because he's a player whose skills journey, I think we've had the pleasure of tracking along the years, right?

He's gained a reputation for sort of maniacally going into the lab every offseason

and working on his game and adding tools that he can use to keep beating opponents in different ways, right?

And you don't, none of this

is by accident. Like, you don't enjoy this type of remarkable longevity that he's had in year

19 now without that type of approach. The game has evolved so much since he came into the league.

There's been changes around him every year. There's a new class of players coming in who

are more skilled and dynamic than ever before

and so he's had to recalibrate and adjust to that as well and he's done a remarkable job of

doing so and i think i don't know about you but i that's kind of i appreciate that about his greatness

almost more than anything else yeah like one of the things that's really important to note when it comes to the whole idea of taken off seasons and going into the lab is that we, I see players, of course, it's my business to see players who are looking to get in the lab to reinvent aspects of their game

or update them or find more ways to become relevant and sustain their NHL career.

And what gets missed along the way is that it's a lot of times those are multiple off seasons that are

needed before you really see the the real tangible effect so if you're you know if you're four

or five years in the league and then all of a sudden you're like oh geez like these players are

so much more.

Like the game has gotten a lot faster.

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