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

Welcome to the HockeyPedocast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me here in studio, my good buddy, Thomas Trans. Tom, what's common?

Thanks for the lead-in. I'm really excited. We've got another great episode and another, I mean, a high-end guest.

We're having the time of our lives here. I feel like the rest of the hockey world has just gone off to their cottages and cabins

and taking the summer off after all the first wave of news. Meanwhile, we're just doing like the best

shows. I think we've really done. We've had a great list of guests. We're doing our people in the game

week. We had Todd Diamond on to start the week. His candor was much appreciated. Then we had Brennan

in studio who's got to be one of the best guys in the league. He was phenomenal. We had to push him out of the studio at some point because he just wanted to hang out so long and just chop it up with us. His perspective on how much retrievals have changed. Yep. Like that was awesome. That was really cool. And we're going to keep the good times going. And so we got the

player agent perspective. We got the player perspective. Now we've got to get a GM in the mix. We're going to coach later this week as well, but we're bringing in the GM. And this is a long time listener, first time caller to the show. My good buddy, Kyle Duvus. Kyle, what's going on then? All good, guys.

How are you?

We're good. We got a lot of fun stuff to talk about over the next 50 minutes.

And Tom and I have spent a lot of time really since the offseason started discussing kind of

the way the market has shifted a little bit this off season in the NHL, right?

With the cap going up to 95.5 million, the talent available in the

free agency market, maybe not necessarily being where it's been in past years. And so now all

a sudden we got this interesting spot where teams around the league all of a sudden had more

money to spend, didn't necessarily have a ton of players to spend it on. And so we saw a pretty

burgeoning, especially right off the bat, trade market.

Now, unlike past seasons, we've kind of become accustomed to viewing some of these players with term and money attached to their deals as guys who, especially if a team needs to move out money because they're up against the cap and they want to improve their team elsewhere wind up viewing them purely as cap dumps where they're attaching picks or future

capital to them to shift those contracts to other teams.

Now all of a sudden we saw, you know, you go on down the line.

It started with Chris Kreider, but Evander Kane, Mason Marchman, Charlie Coil and

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