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

Welcome to the Hockey P.D.O.cast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Daryl, Belfre. Daryl, what's going on, man?

I'm ready to go. Again, I cannot wait to get started on this one.

We are so back. This is another edition of our weekly staple here in the PDO cast. I message you this every

Monday night, but I eagerly look forward to this to the point where I feel like a kid just waiting

to open his gifts. And the listeners seem to enjoy it when we get together as well. So we're going to

pick a player. We're going to meticulously grind through their tape. And then we're going to talk about it

here on the show as we play some of the stuff. And today we're going to pick a player. We're going to meticulously grind through their tape. And then we're going to talk about it here on the show as we play some of the stuff.

And today we're going to do Nikita Kutrov.

Initially, we're planning on doing Sasha Barkov, who's having a trademark dominant season that not enough people are talking about because he doesn't have a lot of points.

But he got hurt over the weekend.

Now it sounds like the outlook is pretty positive and he should be back soon.

So hopefully he's back on the ice relatively shortly and we can revisit that then.

But in the meantime, we're going to stick in the same state and we're going to go to their rival,

the Tampa Bay Lightning, and we're going to talk about Nikita Kuturov and Darrell.

Truthfully, like when you and I got together, I think it was a week or two before the season

started and we started kicking around the idea of doing this type of show and this concept.

I think Kucharov was one of the first names.

We floated out there as a player we wanted to study because there's so many intricacies

and details to his game that are flashy and you certainly

notice them upon initial viewing but it feels like with more reps of just watching his tape

you come to gain an even additional layer of appreciation for just how special this guy is

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