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

Welcome to the HockeyPedocast. My name is Dimitri Filipovich. And join Amy is my good buddy Thomas Jans. Tom. What's going on in?

Hey, buddy. I'm excited for, I mean, you know, realistically an eight to 10 day stretch that she could reshape the league.

Probably won't reshape the absolute apex, you know, unless the Carolina

Hurricanes connect on a home run. But, you know, it's going to be a fascinating offseason. It's

going to be a fascinating stretch, especially with sort of this being the first time we've seen

NHL general managers have a chance to operate

without the shackles of of the relentless austerity that was the flat cap era and and I'm thrilled

like this is going to be a ton of fun and yet you know very much like when the first cars were

called horse drawn or sorry sorry, the first were

called horseless carriages, right? It's like, oh, it's a horseless carriage. Because you didn't

have language yet to define the new thing. You had to define it relative to the thing that was

familiar. We're still going to see a lot of like, oh, that's a lot. Oh, that's a lot. And, you know, increasingly, I think we get to

do something that I'm really excited about dim in analyzing moves and and off seasons and overall

planning, which is to obsess less over like the efficiency of a bet and more about whether or not the player is good enough,

right?

Whether or not the player actually helps the hockey side of it gets to take center stage

relative to where we've been for an awfully long time.

Oh, I like the player, but man, that's a risky deal, right?

It's like the, the, we're now bowling or NHL general managers anyway are going to be

bowling in lanes that have the ropes up. The mistakes are going to be far more forgiving. You're

not going to end up with a dead contract or an overinvestment. And it's like, well, there's no chance

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