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

Welcome to the Hockey Pediocast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich and joining me for the first time this season is my good buddy Jack Hahn. Jack, what's going on, man?

Happy to be back. We got lots to talk about. We do. We're reunited. It feels so good. It's not quite the last times we had you on was, I think, our bread and butter, right, during, like, playoff series where we can

really just sink our teeth into specific X's and O's and tactical adjustments and stuff

like that. We don't really have that going right now, but in this first month of the season, I know

you and I have both been just consuming as much hockey as we can, trying to see what teams are

doing differently, what's going on around the league.

And so I thought it would be good to have you on.

I kind of do a bit of a checkup on that and talk about maybe some interesting or surprising

early season performances and kind of what we're seeing from those teams.

Do you want to start talking about the ducks?

Yeah, so very big surprise for me because coming into the season, I wasn't really expecting

the Ducks to be a team that's quite interesting to watch, even though I do enjoy watching

Zegris.

And I think Jamie Driesdale has got some potential, but really surprising.

And one player that I think we're both going to really love,

just kind of came out of nowhere.

Yes.

That's a good teaser right there.

Well, before we get into that player,

they're coming off a game last night against the coyotes,

which was for my money,

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