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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast.

My name is Demetra Filipovich and joining me back in studio, my good buddy Thomas Trance.

Tom, what's coming?

Not much, buddy.

Good to be back with you for a special midsummer week of PDOCAS shows plus perhaps a bonus episode.

So we're getting down to it.

This is usually the time of year where we're naming guys at random on the beach.

Yes.

Seeing how deep into the number of NHL players we actually have player takes on.

The dog days of Luke Cunning banter.

And, you know, now we're going to do it for the audience and we've got some interesting conversations ahead of us over the course of this week.

Yeah, I'm excited. I promise the intentions were good. I remember when we last spoke, we signed off for the season and we told the listener was the final episode. But I...

We lied. I just wasn't ready to say goodbye yet. You know what? It's a long summer. I went away for some downtime to the island and I tried to unwind and that lasted like two days. And then I just got back in the lab and had all these ideas in my head of what I wanted to do. Now fortunately, you're as much of a sicko as I am. So I didn't really need to twist your arm. I was like, let's just get back in a studio and let's flesh out some of these ideas well the problem is too is this summer in particular it's really difficult to tune out you know you you drop 160 page

mow you for me over the course of a july weekend i mean i know what my saturday night plans don't

tip me with a good time my god i know I know exactly what my Saturday night looks like now,

and it involves combing through and coming out of it with takes like,

man, the NHL really wanted to tamp down on general cap shenanigans.

That's sort of where we're at.

We're also in this interesting summer where we're seeing trades unfold. I mean, there was a lot of hype about,

for example, the Pittsburgh Penguins being the one seller team sort of leading into the draft

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