Going Through This Summer's Free Agent Class
6/19/202651 min
Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Dom Luszczyszyn to go through this year's unrestricted free agent class, including Darren Raddysh's sign-and-trade to the Leafs.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] Regressing to the mean since 2015. It's the Hockey PDO Cast with your host, Dimitri Filipovic.
Dimitri Filipovic· Host0:17
Welcome to the Hockey PDO Cast. My name's Dimitri Filipovic and joining is my good buddy, Dom Luszczyszyn. Dom, what's going on, man?
Dom Luszczyszyn· Guest0:25
Uh, not much on my end. Nothing, nothing happening here in old Toronto. Um, how, how are you doing today?
Dimitri Filipovic· Host0:31
I'm doing well. You know, we were gonna start this recording earlier than we did, and then we had to delay it and you had to push it back specifically 'cause you were just roaming the streets of Toronto looking for Darren Raddysh. [laughs] And so, uh, I'm not sure if you found him or not yet, if he's arrived on the scene. Um, but it's good timing because you and I had planned to do this regardless, and we're gonna focus our discussion, um, on this summer's UFA class and talking about some of the free agents and the pros and cons- Mm ... of the top candidates available. And we were obviously gonna start with Raddysh as well because of, you know, the speculation about how much he'd get paid, where he'd go, his handedness, the position, all that good stuff. And then we get clarity on him going to your Toronto Maple Leafs in the sign and trade with the Lightning. And so it's a great opportunity and launching pad for us for this discussion. Um, I think the fit makes a ton of sense. Obviously, it was highly rumored well before this that the