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's Dmitra Filipovich and joining me here in studio, my good buddy, Harmon Dile. What's going on, man?

Doing all, man. How are you?

I'm doing good. We got a fun show here today with well have co-authored because it's everyone that I've been

talking about so highly on the show this year.

We'll sprinkle in some takes from last night's pair of evening games with the abs,

Devils, and Kings Canucks as part of our conversation.

Let's start with this mailback question from the PDOCs Discord.

It's from Devils fan, Sad Pitt asks. With Shamis Casey's play this

year, albeit in a small sample size, will the devils be forced into a decision between Casey and

Shimon Nemitz? Should they move on from one of these guys this summer while their stock is still high,

or we're waiting it out and having one of these guys as a seventh defenseman be the better option?

Yeah, my immediate thought was, and Kinnock's fans might not like me bringing this up,

but Quinn Hughes has two years left on his contract beyond this season, and you know that

if you're Vancouver, there's no scenario in which, if it's the end of next season and you're trying to extend Quinn Hughes, like there's no way you're going to risk the possibility of him walking as a free agent.

And we know how appealing the idea of potentially playing with both of his brothers in New Jersey would be.

So if I'm the Devils,

I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility

that Quinn might be a player that you could target in the summer of 2026

if extension talks with the Canucks are going sideways.

And in that case, you could preserve an asset like... in the summer of 2026 if extension talks with the Canucks are going sideways.

And in that case, you could preserve an asset like Nemich to go out and make a play for Quinn.

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