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

Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name isitri Filipovich. And joining me for the first time this season is my good buddy, Robbzola. Rob, what's going on, man? of some of the ones we've done in the past. I think we've done about four or five PDOCs together.

And my favorite of the bunch was actually the first one we did, which was all the way back in December 2018. I was staying in a nice little Airbnb in Toronto and you came over. We had a couple

beers. We talked about the state of sports gambling and how it relates to the NHL. And I think at

the time in listening to it, like the NHL had just signed a deal with like

BetMGM or something.

And they're like talking about unveiling all this new tracking technology and data during

their broadcast to allow you to do like live prop bets while you're watching games

from an arena and stuff like that.

And five years later here, not that much has changed.

I feel like we could just kind of replay that episode and it would be pretty valid for

the most part, which is interesting, potentially alarming, maybe frustratingly so that

not that much has evolved or adapted over time.

But here we are.

Yeah, I remember that pretty vividly

as well. I mean, it's sort of a criticism of the NHL, but not really when you consider the fact that

pretty much all of the major North American sports right now are in that same ballpark where

they've just kind of been slow to react. You obviously, a lot of advertising of sports books during

games. But the product itself is very, very similar to what it was. They've just kind of been slow to react. You obviously a lot of advertising of sports books during games,

but the product itself is very, very similar to what it was in 2018.

So definitely looking for that evolution to take place at some point.

But right now, I think we're still in the very infancy of sports betting.

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