The Hockey PDOcast

Chris Meaney, a hockey and fantasy sports analyst known for NHL evaluations, projections, and betting insights, joins a deep dive into early-season usage. They spotlight Cole Perfetti’s breakout role, Vasily Podkolzin beside Edmonton’s stars, emerging opportunities in New Jersey and Tampa Bay, Buffalo’s young talent, and Carolina’s underrated trio. Plenty of deep-league names and injury-driven fantasy targets round out the discussion.

Harman Dayal, a hockey writer and NHL analyst for The Athletic, joins a lively tour of the league’s 13 most watchable teams. They explore Toronto’s high-stakes makeover, Utah and Montreal’s electric young cores, Edmonton’s never-safe games, San Jose’s chaotic experiment, and Colorado’s relentless attack. Dallas, New Jersey, Buffalo, Anaheim, Tampa Bay, Washington, and Minnesota also make the cut.

Harman Dayal, a Canadian hockey writer and NHL analyst, joins a lively tour through teams ranked 32nd to 14th in the season’s watchability rankings. They debate Vancouver’s rebuild, Chicago’s Bedard-fueled intrigue, Detroit’s brewing drama, Pittsburgh’s entertaining sunset, and Carolina’s relentless machine. Along the way: thin rosters, coaching changes, breakout candidates, and teams whose chaos may be impossible to ignore.

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Bill Armstrong and John Matisz to wrap up this year's Summer Series with a chat about the value of having your core players already signed long-term in this current market, Utah's plan for building on last year's playoff appearance, their offseason moves, and finding ways to keep integrating young players into an already competitive lineup.There will be a couple of new episodes each week that will be Patreon-exclusive only for our subscribers, and won't be appearing on the free feed. To gain access to all of that content make sure you've subscribed to the PDOcast's Patreon. The subscription provides you with the ad-free version of every single episode we do this season, and they will be available for you to listen as soon as we're done recording.We've also finally got some merch available for our listeners! If you'd like to get your hands on a PDOcast shirt or hat to rep the show, you can do so here. We've recently added a really fun new option on there to celebrate the start of the season. If you've already subscribed to the Patreon, one of the perks that comes with it is that you get a discount on all of the show merch.I'd also recommend subscribing to our Youtube channel. We'll be posting full shows on there more regularly this season so that you can watch along with us. I'm hoping to grow the channel this year, so each subscription, like, and comment is greatly appreciated. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Kevin Woodley to put together a list of goalies we're excited about this season. The list includes goalies who could break out this year, have already recently broken out and are now looking to cement their status with even more opportunity, have something important to prove in their current situation, or are ones we're just generally looking forward to watching.There will be a couple of new episodes each week that will be Patreon-exclusive only for our subscribers, and won't be appearing on the free feed. To gain access to all of that content make sure you've subscribed to the PDOcast's Patreon. The subscription provides you with the ad-free version of every single episode we do this season, and they will be available for you to listen as soon as we're done recording.We've also finally got some merch available for our listeners! If you'd like to get your hands on a PDOcast shirt or hat to rep the show, you can do so here. We've recently added a really fun new option on there to celebrate the start of the season. If you've already subscribed to the Patreon, one of the perks that comes with it is that you get a discount on all of the show merch.I'd also recommend subscribing to our Youtube channel. We'll be posting full shows on there more regularly this season so that you can watch along with us. I'm hoping to grow the channel this year, so each subscription, like, and comment is greatly appreciated.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Kyle Raftis and John Matisz to discuss the impact new NCAA rules have had on team building at the CHL level, different development paths for young players, the way Brady Martin and Chase Reid's stock rose the past two seasons, communication with NHL teams about the prospects they've drafted, transferable skills from major junior to pro hockey, CHL trades involving a million future draft picks, and the Soo's utilization of analytics.There will be a couple of new episodes each week that will be Patreon-exclusive only for our subscribers, which means that they won't be appearing on this free feed. To gain access to all of that content make sure you've subscribed to the PDOcast's Patreon. The subscription provides you with the ad-free version of every single episode we do this season, and they will be available for you to listen as soon as we're done recording.We've also finally got some merch available for our listeners! If you'd like to get your hands on a PDOcast shirt or hat to rep the show, you can do so here. If you've already subscribed to the Patreon, one of the perks that comes with it is that you get a discount on all of the show merch.I'd also recommend subscribing to our Youtube channel. We'll be posting full shows on there more regularly this season so that you can watch along with us. I'm hoping to grow the channel this year, so each subscription, like, and comment is greatly appreciated. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Dom Luszczyszyn to go through each team's point total projection for this coming season.There will be a couple of new episodes each week that will be Patreon-exclusive only for our subscribers, and won't be appearing on this free feed. To gain access to all of that content make sure you've subscribed to the PDOcast's Patreon. The subscription provides you with the ad-free version of every single episode we do this season, and they will be available for you to listen as soon as we're done recording.We've also finally got some merch available for our listeners! If you'd like to get your hands on a PDOcast shirt or hat to rep the show, you can do so here. If you've already subscribed to the Patreon, one of the perks that comes with it is that you get a discount on all of the show merch.I'd also recommend subscribing to our Youtube channel. We'll be posting full shows on there more regularly this season so that you can watch along with us. I'm hoping to grow the channel this year, so each subscription, like, and comment is greatly appreciated. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Pete Blackburn to put together our Stakes Tiers heading into this upcoming NHL season. We sort through all 32 teams based on expectations, organizational urgency, competitive window, and how much they've generally got on the line this year.There will be a couple of new episodes each week that will be Patreon-exclusive only for our subscribers, and won't be appearing on this free feed. To gain access to all of that content make sure you've subscribed to the PDOcast's Patreon. The subscription provides you with the ad-free version of every single episode we do this season, and they will be available for you to listen as soon as we're done recording.We've also finally got some merch available for our listeners! If you'd like to get your hands on a PDOcast shirt or hat to rep the show, you can do so here. If you've already subscribed to the Patreon, one of the perks that comes with it is that you get a discount on all of the show merch.I'd also recommend subscribing to our Youtube channel. We'll be posting full shows on there more regularly this season so that you can watch along with us. I'm hoping to grow the channel this year, so each subscription, like, and comment is greatly appreciated. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Scott Wedgewood and John Matisz for Part 3 of this year's Summer Series to talk about why save percentage is down in today's game, how the challenges of playing the position have changed since he first entered the league, adjustments he's made along the way, dealing with the pressure of being an NHL goalie, bouncing around the league until he got a real opportunity, and playing on last year's Avalanche team. To gain access to all of the content we're posting on this feed moving forward make sure you've subscribed to the PDOcast's Patreon. It provides you with the ad-free version of every single episode we put out there this season, and it will be available for you to listen as soon as it's been recorded. We've also finally got some merch available for our listeners! If you'd like to get your hands on a PDOcast shirt or hat to rep the show, you can do so here. If you've already subscribed to the Patreon, one of those aforementioned perks is that you get a discount on all merch to go along with it. I'd also recommend subscribing to our Youtube channel. We'll be posting full shows on there more regularly this season so that you can watch along with us. I'm hoping to grow the channel this year, so each subscription, like, and comment is greatly appreciated. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Dan Muse and John Matisz to talk about his first year as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, his role in getting the most out of the players his GM acquires, the team's offensive approach last season, and a bunch of other stuff. To gain immediate access to the ad-free version of every show we record this season make sure you've subscribed to the PDOcast's Patreon. The plan is to ramp up the content for our subscribers even further heading into the start of the regular season, so if you haven't joined us yet now is a good time to do so at the current rate we've got listed before the subscription fee increases on September 1st to account for all of the additional perks coming your way moving forward. We've finally got some merch available for our listeners! If you'd like to get your hands on a PDOcast shirt or hat to rep the show, you can do so here. There's a discount code for all merch that comes with a Patreon subscription for those of you that are already members so make sure to take advantage of that. We'll also be posting more video this season if you want to watch along with us while you're listening to the show. You can find all of those on the PDOcast's Youtube channel. We've got this episode up on that feed already, so you can see for yourself that Dan Muse is smiling and having a good time while chatting with us. The last plug: we've built up a nice little community on Discord, which you can join by signing up for the Hockey PDOcast's server. It's the best spot for you to submit any mailbag questions you may have for future shows, and it's also a great place for conversation whenever anything important happens in the NHL. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.