David Drucker

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1,079 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 12 Jun

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The Dan Le Batard Show · The Hockey Show: The Cup Is Back Up For Grabs · 17 Apr 2026 podcast

There also has to be the evaluation.

Is he a leader?

Does he lead by example of all these things?

And then once you kind of pair those two together, then you're really on to something.

And that's what the Panthers do extremely well.

They pick out a player that's very analytically sound, and then does it fit our system?

And if you bounce off the coaches, the GMs, the analytic people, the scouts, and if the final decision ends up and Bill Zito says, okay, yep, that's going to work, we will do that.

And so it's a lot of good hockey minds put together, and that's why it's been successful.

They've married the two between analytics and understanding the heart and grit and desire of players to fit our systems.

So they've done it extremely well, and that's what –

Everyone, I guess, around the league, once you've won a couple of Stanley Cups and been to three straight, teams are going to copy you.

System-wise, what you're doing in the front office, everyone wants a piece of it.

Yeah, there's just much more data that you can have on everyone.

You just didn't have the total insight, like how much did Bill Lindsay get into the slot area?

How much time did he have?

Or how much time did he have with the puck on his stick in the offensive zone?

Well, three seconds, well, that's not very much for a game.

He only has...

So you can dive through all of it.

I would say the changes happen, but you can still see with an eye test and get an understanding.

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