Why Aliaksei Protas Is One of the Best Developing Stories in the NHL This Year

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by John Matisz to talk about Aliaksei Protas' development this year, and how it fits into the theme of the Washington Capitals hitting on every bet they make recently. They also talk about the wave of 6'6" players the NHL is seeing, and the next one that could be joining the mix in Washington. Then they get into updates regarding Four Nations roster changes, and mailbag questions about the Sharks rebuild.

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0:00.0	Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.
0:19.2	Welcome to the Hockey-Ocast.
0:21.0	My name is Dimitri Filipovich.
0:22.2	And joining me as my good buddy, John Mattis, John.
0:24.5	What's going on, man?
0:26.4	Not a whole lot.
0:27.2	Honestly, still in a slight shock over Dmitri Kulikov hitting 1,000 games last night.
0:33.1	And that's supposed to be a compliment to the guy, but it's like so random that he is part of that club now.
0:40.0	And it's cool, it's cool that he did it with the Panthers, right?
0:42.0	Because he started there and now he's, you know, hitting 1K there.
0:45.6	It's a pretty cool journey for him.
0:48.2	Yeah.
0:48.6	Another momentous achievement for the Dimitri Club.
0:53.0	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
0:59.2	Yeah, honestly, I tuned into that broadcast to watch Panthers Kings on Wednesday night and they were talking about it and they obviously honored him at the start.
1:03.6	And then I was just like, I was just almost, I don't want to say I was in shambles because
1:08.2	it's, it's a cool accomplishment for him. But for me, it just like I remember when he was like a young defenseman,
1:14.6	but also the fact that he's kind of hung around for this long,
1:17.1	bounced around so many teams,
1:18.3	came back to Florida,
1:19.2	as you said,
1:19.8	won a cup with them last year.
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