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

Welcome into the Hockey Pedylato

guest, my name is Mietrofovic and joining me on this Tuesday edition of the show.

It's my good buddy, John Mattis, John, what's going on?

Not a whole lot, Dmitri, it's, uh, it's, uh, we're sort of in that period right

before the All-Star break where, uh, I wouldn't say it's like dog days but you know

there's the the playoff races aren't quite as thick or as urgent as they will be in a

month or two and we're kind of past all that early season stuff so it's it's a good time to

analyze big picture that's for sure well and and just because of the unique sort of considerations with the cap and how tight up against

it, everyone is and how little flexibility there is, and teams are very happy to tell you all

about that as an excuse for why they're not doing anything, I think we're going to see a lot

of moves at the trade deadline, but it's going to be like the day before and the day of it's not going to be.

And as I say that, hopefully there will be a trade here that proves me wrong and breaks soon.

But I really think it's going to be a lot of like, I don't know, we'll see.

And then it'll all kind of just like the plug gates open and all happen, which is great.

It'll be a great week. But unfortunately for us, we kind of have to wait till then and come up with content in the meantime to sort of fill the time. That's what we're

here for, right? That's what we're here for. Yeah. Well, so we're going to do a mailbag today,

which is exciting. I wish we were going to do this initially on Monday, and it would have been Mattis's mailbag Monday, which would have been a great alliteration, but we'll settle

for a Tuesday edition. So the questions keep coming in. I guarantee we get the most thoughtful

questions out of any hockey show out there. I'm confident in saying that, and that's not surprising

because we clearly have the coolest and smartest guests, uh, guests and listeners in the

business. So no, it, I'm amazed. Like, I've only done this my second mailbag with you, but like,

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