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

Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast. My name is Dmitrara Filipovich and joining me for the first time making his triumphant debut appearance on the show. My good buddy, Johnny Lazarus, Johnny. It's going on, man. Dmitri, it's an absolute honor to be here. I'm a big fan of your work. So, very excited to be face to face and talk some hockey with you here. This is going to be fun, man. We're going to do a New York Rangers deep dive, you know, for a team that has been a top,

not only the Eastern Conference, but the entire NHL standings for the majority of the season.

I know they slipped up a little bit here over the past couple weeks, but I haven't spoken

nearly enough about this team, it feels like, just because we've been speaking about him so much as currently constitute over

the past couple years and I think people generally know what to expect and I know there's some new

parts and there's certainly a new coach and they're playing a bit differently this season but I've

just been kind of preoccupied I guess with other stuff going on around the league and so I thought it'd

be a good opportunity to bring you in and talk about this team. What's the vibe check like right now? Because I know that the defense has slipped up a little bit here recently.

There's been a few uncharacteristic performances.

But still, I believe they're fourth in the league in point percentage right now, second

of the east just behind Boston.

So all things considered, I think it's been a pretty good season so far through the

first 40 games or so.

Yeah, I mean, even that point you just made, it got me thinking right off the bat.

Like, is this Rangers team exciting to the rest of the league?

Like, I get to watch them day in, day out.

So, like, it's fun for me.

But did they have as much flair as they normally have in the past years. I feel like when you take away Tarasenko and Kane, it's a little

bit, you know, less attractive maybe to the overall NHL fan, but I still feel like this team is

so exciting to watch night in and night out. But then there is again, that little argument where

you don't have the flashes like you do when you see McDavid play in the Oilers or Jack Hughes

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