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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.

My name is Dmitri Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy Tom Bistrez. Tom. What's going on, man?

Hey, buddy. I'm doing well. I'm, uh, yeah, excited to do the show today. There's a lot of surprising stuff that's unfolded across the league, uh, with, you know, hilarious ramifications that I think we can get into both for the rest of this season and obviously shaping some of what we

will expect in the offseason. I mean, torts, come on. Let's go. This is as wild as it gets.

So yeah, let's talk it all out, brother.

Well, listen, the Sunday special has become a weekly staple, not only for you and I,

but for our listeners.

And full transparency, we probably weren't going to do one this week just because of the travel logistics with us going to Denver for the conference and everything we've got coming this

week.

And then this news broke on Sunday afternoon and we're like, all right, let's do this.

We're just doing it Monday morning and we're going to talk our way through all of those

ramifications.

You just tease there and then we'll cover some other stuff the way we typically do on our Sunday

specials.

But I think we can safely devote at least the first half of today's show to the Golden Knights

and they're

firing of Bruce Cassidy on Sunday, the hiring of John Tortorella as at least a temporary

replacement for the rest of this season. I think my first note on it is just unbelievable timing,

right? It comes on a Sunday afternoon. There's eight games left in the regular season for this

Golden Knights team that despite all of their well-documented issues is still sitting rather comfortably in a

playoff spot because of the state of the Pacific Division around them. And I think even by

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