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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy John Mattis John. What's going on in?

Not a whole lot. It's been a while, both for us chatting on this fine podcast of yours, but also, hey, it's the first episode back in a while. So welcome back.

It's very exciting. I know the listeners are very excited for us to be back.

It felt good just saying the opening line there.

I've gotten so used to say and then taking 10 days off or whatever I did.

Apologized to everyone for that extended time off.

I got back on Monday morning and then I spent the past days, essentially just sitting in the wherewood tree,

like the three-eyed Raven and Game of Thrones, just absorbing every single thing that happened.

I tried to watch it all back, consume as much as I could just to kind of catch up and get ready

for this.

And yeah, I'd say honestly, the amount of hockey that I've watched in the past 72 hours

is truly sick, even for my usual standard.

So hopefully we'll be able to catch up on all of it.

I thought it'd be fun, this being our first show back and having you on and you obviously cover the league as a whole for the score.

And I know that, and this is a bit of an organic plug for you right off the top. You're going to have a big article with

kind of quick tidbits on all 32 teams coming out that you wrote up. So I thought it'd be fun

and bounce around, try to kind of play catch up a little bit on all the big stories that happened

while we were away, what caught our eye, all of that fun stuff. So that's what we're going to do here

today. I'll give you the floor here first, John. You open it up with what you think is the big story that's happened here

over the past week or 10 days or kind of what's really caught your eye the most out of anything.

Ooh, I don't know about like the biggest story, but for some reason in doing this exercise and

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