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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEO cast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich and joining me somehow for the first time ever.

My pal, Julian McKenzie. Julian, what's going on, man?

Dude, man. It's kind of funny. It's somehow for the first time because we've connected on the internet a bunch of times where we've never done any type of podcast

or thing together.

So it's an absolute honor to be on with you and especially on the show.

Congrats again on this new show, man.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, we've tried to connect a number of times.

I've tried to have you on my show.

You tried to have me on your shows.

And it's like we've never been able to make the timing work.

So this is perfect. And it's a great opportunity for us to finally do it because we've got a really,

really meaty topic to get into here.

You just published kind of like, I don't know how you describe it.

It's sort of like almost like a tell all or like an oral history of the,

the blockbuster offseason trade that involved Matthew Kachuk, Jonathan Hubert O,

and McKenzie Weger. And I wanted to use these 25 minutes here in the first block of the show today to really

just kind of talk through the process of putting it together and kind of what you learned throughout

it and what the big takeaways were. Because I think, you know, I can speak for myself here,

but I'm sure all the fans

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