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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me, as always, my good buddy, Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on then?

No much, man. It's been a highlight of my summer to get to do these shows with you. We've had three really interesting conversations, sort of documenting how a player agent, a player, an NHL general manager are thinking sorry, an NHL general manager thinking about how the game is

changing. We promised you we'd bring in a head coach. We've got Rick Tockeet head coach of the

Philadelphia Flyers joining us. I'm thrilled. This is going to be a ton of fun. Rick, how are you

doing? Doing pretty good. Trying to get, you know, your life in order when you make a move to a different team.

But, no, it's good.

We had a great time at the draft, you know, with, I brought my coaches down.

We had our meetings there and then obviously meeting certain people, the flyers that you haven't seen.

And then some old friends, you know, seeing Bobby Clark and Billy Barber around. I haven't seen those guys in a while. So it was a great time. So, Rick, I want to go through the timeline with you and kind of where we're at right now as we're recording on, what is it, July 16th, so it's 18th now. It's flying, how much fun we're having this week. So you know, you make the decision officially to leave the Can Canucks on April 29th. You get hired by the Flyers on May 14th. It's been two months since now. I'm curious kind of how much chance you've had in terms of doing some homework and kind of like the legwork off the ice before you get onto it with the flyers in familiarizing yourself with the spot

you're stepping into both in terms of how the flyers played last season maybe what worked for

them and what didn't and then the personnel you're taking over and kind of formulating a plan

for what your vision is going to be once you get onto the ice for what you're going to want

the flyers to look like and play like next season yeah great question i question. I think first of all, you know, when you meet with, you know, when I met with the Flyers, you know, obviously Danny Breyer and Keith Jones, Dan Hilford, the main guy, the president, you know, the game plan. What's, what, you know, where do they see their team team this year the next few years and you go through

that which we did we we did a lot of means about that um and then when i took the job uh then it's

about you know putting your staff together you know what's the chemistry like you know like i

wanted a couple of teachers on my staff i wanted a veteran guy what you got you got in Todd Reardon, who's, you know, his track record, if you look at some of the D that he's coached, I talked a couple of the D that he had coached. I got, even a guy like Tom Wilson, I reached out to who gave rave reviews about him. So you do your legwork on your coaches stuff. And then when you,

you know,

when you got that done,

you start,

you focus on the players,

you know,

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