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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey Pediocast. My name is Detra Filipovich and joining me in here in studio is my good

pal Kevin Woodley, Kevin. What's going on in? Everything. Yeah. Like quite literally everything in this

market. It's been, uh, even with them out of town, it's been a, it's been a, it's been a adventure.

Well, hopefully we're going to be able to give you a

little bit of a mental reprieve from talking about conucks goalies because i know it's been it's been a

grind for you this season it has it's been a grind for the goalies for the Vancouver conucks as well

this season it has um okay here's what we're going to start with you're our director of the

goaltending excellence department that we have here, the PDO cast.

And I want to bounce around some ideas that I've been thinking about in terms of goalies that I want to get your takes on.

So I think this is the last time I'm going to be able to have you on the show before this year's trade deadline.

And so with that in mind, I was curious for your take in terms of for teams looking to upgrade a net,

and now there's very few of them, especially in terms of contenders that are in the market

for a goalie improvement in season.

But let's say you were a team like the Kings, for example, who could use an upgrade.

Do you have confidence that there's enough runway, especially by the time you get to March 3rd, there's about

like 20 games left in the regular season or so, and realistically, whatever goal you bring in

will probably only be playing around 12 to 15 of them. Do you think there's enough runway between

when you acquire a goalie and the actual start of the postseason to get fully acclimated in

terms of establishing an idea of like expectation for where shots are going to be coming from, how your defense in front of you is going to play certain things, you know, your usage, your deployment, everything.

It's not something we typically think about for goalies. You think of them much more for skaters in terms of integrating into the system, but I know you and I have talked in the past about how valuable this can be for finding the right goalie in terms of strength and weaknesses for the team in front of them.

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