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 as always, my good buddy, Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on in? Doing well excited for this one. This is, you know, for listeners who've been rolling their eyes every time we bring up a certain young up-and-coming team, they'll be prepared for this on-brand interview that we're going to do to close out our summer series. Yes, this is our fifth and final part of the summer series. I don't want to add extra pressure to both us and the guest because we're coming off an episode last week where we had Rick Talked on and completely unsolicited at the end. He gave us the best testimonial that it was ever gone. And so we're riding high right now. That rocked. But we're going to try to top it today. And some would argue that, as you mentioned, we probably spent no on no team that we spent more time this season than the Utah Hockey Club. Even sometimes when they were struggling early in the year, when it wasn't necessarily warranted, considering we take a view of the whole league. But we were so enamored with watching them play and what they were building. And so we had to stay on brand. It's our last show of the year. And so we're going to end it in style. We've got the man responsible for putting the team together that can talk about it at great length and depth. Bill Armstrong, Bill, what's going on in? Oh, thank you for having me, guys. This is awesome. you know so this summer. It doesn't get any better than this to talk about. We're right in the grind of summer, and there's nothing better than to sit down and talk more hockey right now. What would everybody want in the world? They want to talk about hockey. And the number one team, an up-and-coming team in the National Hockey League, the Mammoth. So here we are. There you go. So you guys are coming off of year one in Utah after the relocation. The team missed the playoffs by a couple points. But as we were documenting all year, made a really big leap on the ice and under the hood by essentially anometric. Thomas and I would look at and talk about post four nations.

You guys finished 12th in point percentage at 515 for the year.

You were top 10 across the board and everything we look at as performance indicators.

The power play for all the firepower it had really came together in that stretch down the season.

I think it was clocking in at like fourth in terms of goals per hour during that time.

How much is the way the team kind of came together and meshed once everyone got healthy on

the blue line and really got to play together? How much churning out those results in particular

that influenced the motivation to go out this off season and take some real swings in trying to

keep adding to this young nucleus with the JJ

Petrka trade, with the Nate Schmidt and Brandon Tann of signings to kind of compliment that

young core already in place.

Yeah, it was a good year last year.

It took our team a little bit of time just to kind of feel comfortable playing in Utah.

There was so much energy when we came in here.

I think it was frightening for our guys in some regard with our team.

Like, you know, sold out rank, you know, I think we're used to playing in front of 4,500 in Arizona.

So, you know, our fans were passionate, you know.

And I think we over-tried.

We were over-emotional. and we just had a hard time

finding a rhythm at the start. And once we did, we were fine. But we got to the Four Nations, we got

healthy. And, you know, we were just devastated by injuries on the backside. And so it made it really

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