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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Demetri Filipovich. As always, joining me on a Sunday for our Sunday special, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Dmitri, I hope you, I hope your audience, had a happy holiday, a Merry Christmas. Some time off from hockey, by the way. Right? I mean, hockey, unlike the NBA and the NFL, actually takes games off, takes days off. I'm a big fan, by the way, right? I mean, hockey, unlike the NBA and the NFL, actually takes

games off, takes days off. I'm a big fan, by the way. I'm a fan of having a few days for

everyone to take a deep breath. Hockey's such a hamster wheel when the season's ongoing, and then

we got a pretty entertaining Saturday slate. It's like pent up energy and got a

fantastic Saturday slate as things got back to normal and I got the league ground back in action.

Looking forward to the second half of the year, my friend. Yeah, I'm excited to be back. It's good. This is

the first show back. I took a couple days off here pretty much a week entirely since the last time you and I spoke on last week Sunday special and I actually wanted to do some shows around the holidays and I was messaging people seeing if guests wanted to come on and record shows with me and people are like, leave me alone. I'm hanging out with my family and taking time off. There's no games on and I'm like, all right, I guess I'll take some time off myself as well. You mentioned that Saturday Sl slate and I wanted to get into some of the

big games that I watched last night with you. And I think a fitting way for us to start is to talk

about, I think, the last game on that slate, which was the Colorado Avalanche, visiting Vegas to

play the Golden Knights. I'm not sure how much of it you got to catch, but I have so many takeaways on that, especially down the stretch, partly because you know, you and I have spoken about DAVs a bunch. We started off last week's show talking about their game against the Minnesota Wild, and as part of that conversation, we were talking about how easy the season's been for them relatively in terms of how often they're scoring

the first goal early in games and then kind of leaning on the opposition. They haven't really

been backed into a corner or pushed in a lot of these games. And so on Saturday evening in

Vegas, you get this spot where they're down four to going into a third period. They've only

trailed for about 16% of their entire game time.

So far this season, certainly very few multi-goal deficits.

And all of a sudden, in that score state, we got to see them just go full blast

offensively pushing for tying goals to get back into it.

And it was as belligerent as you'd expect.

I was looking at the radar gun and the fastball they threw in that one in Vegas on Saturday

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