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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast.

My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me here in studio for another edition of the Sunday special, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Not much excited for this one. This is going to be a good show. It's a timely show. There's some stumping, some things that need to be stumped for, some stumping to do.

I'm not stumped, but we will stump on this program.

I'm very excited.

There's like some points I really want to make, some things that I think are clarifying over the course of the first six weeks of the season.

And, you know, not to not to step on your lead in, but we're going to be talking Olympic teams.

Yes.

And one thing that's interesting about the return of a regular flow of best on best hockey, right, is it's been a while.

It's been a while.

So, four nations face off, we got a lot of players.

We got a little taster.

We got a little taster.

But from the perspective of the national programs, we got this sort of like outpouring moment where players who'd been denied the opportunity to compete in this forum finally got a shot.

And by the way, their effort level and intensity exceeded our expectations throughout,

you know, a randomly thrown together tournament that ended up meaning so much more to the players

competing, to everybody watching, to sponsors, to television executives.

I mean, what a tremendous showcase for the league.

So hat tipped all involved or stick tap to all involved.

But in terms of player selection, right? There was a, I think, an element in the assembly of those teams. And I think

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