Spencer Carbery on This Year’s Compressed Schedule, Developing Young Players, and Things a Coach Can Control

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Spencer Carbery and Thomas Drance to talk about a variety of topics including learning from this year's Olympics, navigating the challenges the compressed schedule has created and the highs and lows that have come with it, the success the Capitals have had the past couple of years with pro scouting and the role a coach plays in putting those acquired players in a position to succeed, the balance of developing younger players at this level while you're trying to be a playoff team, and the things coaches can control during an NHL game.

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0:00.0	Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri
0:16.3	Filipovich.
0:19.6	Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name is Demetri Filipovich. And joining me in studio is my buddy
0:24.7	Thomas Trans. Hello. Hello. And also joining us. We got a three-man booth here today, a special guest.
0:30.2	I've been looking forward to this one for a while. I think it's the perfect way to transition out of the
0:34.2	Olympic break. Get back in NHL mode for the stretch run. Spencer,
0:37.7	Spencer, what's going on, man?
0:40.4	How you doing, guys? Thanks for having me on.
0:42.6	Well, we're really excited to have you on. First of all, we're obviously based in British
0:46.7	Columbia. So we're thrilled to have one of Vancouver Islands finest on the program.
0:53.0	Dmitri and I, of course, are big fans of the Northern Gulf Islands
0:56.1	and a lot of the aquaculture up that way.
0:59.2	But also, you know, we're admirers of your work with the Capitals
1:02.4	and a lot of the stuff you do, which we'll get into over the course of this recording.
1:06.7	But I'm curious to start with this.
1:09.3	You know, I've had the privilege of watching hockey with coaches, and I know how much
1:14.3	all of you guys tend to pick up when watching games.
1:18.7	And I'm curious because this Olympic tournament, especially with some of these overpowered
1:23.0	rosters, especially the North American teams, but Sweden, Finland too, When you're watching this, how much are you gathering intel-wise from some of the systematic
1:32.6	approaches that these teams are taking at this tournament?
1:35.3	I would say it's probably 50-50.
1:40.0	Like 50% of me is it's the fan and watching the hockey game and watching the skill and all the
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