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 is my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Dmitri, excited for this one?

It's going to be a special one. As we teased during yesterday's show, we're starting a people in the game themed week here on the PDO cast and we're going to have a variety of esteemed GMs, coaches, players, player agents as

well. And so kicking us off today is our pal, Todd Diamond, who's been kind enough to take

some time out of his busy summer schedule to join us here. Tom, Todd, how's it going, man?

It's going very well. It's been a pretty good summer for our company, so a lot less stressful

than previous summers. Why don't we start there, Todd? You know, you have obviously a variety

of clients who signed massive deals over the course of the past two and a half weeks.

Orlov, Provorov, and of course, Granland would sort of be the headliners there,

but you've also done a bridge deal with William Eklund this summer.

So it's been a lot of work,

and there's a lot of different angles that we'll get into and discussing some of those deals.

But just big picture, when you sort of

think about this summer and the impact of a historic amount of cap growth, right? The largest

proportional increase in, well, since what, 2007, 2008, and the largest raw money increase in

the upper limit ever is since the hard cap was adopted.

How do you sort of look at how that shaped contract outcomes across the business,

but specifically for your clients?

Well, I think, you know, this summer, you know, it was very fortunate for guys who were going to

be free agents, as you noted, a lot of people came into the system.

And there were a lot of chairs at the table.

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