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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitri Filippovich, and joining me as my good buddy, Daryl, Belfrey, Daryl. What's going on, man?

How much excited to get going again this week?

This is going to be a fun one. It's one of our favorite players to watch this season. I think just as importantly for our purposes here, one of my favorite developments or evolutions to chronicle this season in Thomas

Harley becoming and blossoming into a top flight defenseman and doing things on the ice

that I think, and routinely at that, that I think are just so rare for the position,

particularly from a young defender like him in his first full NHL seasons.

And we're going to talk about the team component as well with the stars and how I think that

skill set ties in so nicely to the specific way they play.

There's so much to unpack here with Harley.

I'll give you the floor to kick us off.

I love doing this because I always say, what's the thing that interests you most?

And then you drop about seven different things on me.

And then it's up to you to try to figure out which one I want to tackle first.

But I love that because you give me all sorts of options.

So I'll give you the floor here.

All right.

Thomas Harley has been a player for me where he, he, I studied him last year. And when I was studying him last year,

I felt like his rush defense was a real Achilles heel. He was essentially an absorbed defender.

And he was using his reach to try to make plays deeper in the zone.

So he didn't really contribute as much to the transition game as much as I thought he was capable of.

Now you watch him this year and you see his offensive zone play, which we'll get into.

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