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

Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name's Dimitri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Jack Fraser. Jack, what's going on in? I'm doing pretty well. There's like six feet of snow on the ground right now in Toronto. But other than that, it couldn't be better. Well, let's try to warm things up a little bit with our takes here today. We're going to do a mailback episode. We got questions from our listeners over at the PDOCAST Discord.

If you're not in there yet for whatever reason and you're listening, please join us. You can get involved for future

editions of these mailbags. And we've got a fun list of topics to get through today. Let's start

with this one because I think there's a lot of layers to it that we can we can unpack. Emily asks,

can we walk through some possibilities for how the

sharks are going to get a number one defenseman because this is what keeps me up at night

as a sharks fan. Now, Emily also included a tweet you sent out recently, kind of wondering

the same thing. And I think it's a fascinating question, especially in light of

Sam Malinsky's extension yesterday, not that he would necessarily profile as a number one

defenseman. But I'm a big fan of his game. And on Friday, Harmon and I did a show on the Patreon,

and we were kind of going through the logistics of if he made it to free agency, how a team like

the sharks would

approach that situation. And I think they certainly would have been very interested and would

have pursued it pretty aggressively. Obviously, that takes it off the board. And now there's one

less option available for them. As good as things have been for San Jose, you look at the blue line.

They're rolling out. It's remarkable that they're hanging around a playoff playoff race with Anorloff-Klingberg pair at the stages of their careers,

Ferraro and Lilligrin, and then Dickinson and De Harnay. They've been building up this young

forward nucleus through the top of the draft over the past couple years. Certainly, they're

already seeing promising results out of it.

But in terms of supplementing it with the blue line position,

how do you think Mike Greer and the sharks are going to approach this,

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