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 is my good buddy, John Mattis. John, what's going on then?

A lot. We've got trades happening. We've got playoff races in January, this sort of race to the Olympics. And then, of course, the Olympics on the horizon. the horizon so i mean we could probably talk for

hours and hours at this point if we really wanted to dig into things we certainly can and that's

exactly maybe not for hours and hours but definitely for the next 50 minutes uh we are going to dig into

we're only two weeks out from the olympics at this point it is fast approaching and i figured a fun

exercise for us to build up the hype, keep prepping for the games

to come would be to make a list of the guys we think stand to benefit most from this

year's games.

Now, I give you some homework, putting together your own list of names so we can go back and forth here and pitch each other on our candidates. Open up the criteria

as well, right? We should have some fun. I think it can be players, like the obvious guys who are

actually going to be representing their countries in these games, but it can also be guys who

won't be there, but might still benefit from it, regardless, teams that could desperately use the time off. The Olympic break is going to afford an NHL schedule for a push down the stretch. So we're going to run the full gamut and try to get through as much as we can here today. You're the guest. I'll give you the floor. Who's atop your list? We're not

necessarily ranking it in order, but we're going to obviously start with the most obvious

candidates up top and then get to the rest later on. Yeah, a guy who really jumps off the page

for me. And it's a fun one in terms of being a snub guy is Matthew Schaefer of the islanders.

Like this guy taking a well-deserved breather here in terms of being left off Canada,

you know,

his life has probably felt like it's been going in fast forward since the draft,

like just a whirlwind in terms of getting acclimated to being on the island.

And, you know,

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