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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitri Filippovich And joining me is my good buddy, Megan, Angley. Megan, what's going on?

Not too much. How are you? I am good. And the reason why I'm good, beyond it being a Friday and the weekend being here, is we're reuniting the Aves Dream Team. We've done this a couple times. Everyone always loves it when we get the band together, so we're going to do so again for the first time this season. Also joining Megan and I

is our pal, AJ Hayfley. AJ, what's going on, fellow?

Just living the life, brother. Living the life. Very exciting. So I knew I had to do an Ave show.

Obviously, they're playing really well. They're 12, 3, and 1 since early

December. I did, I've been off for about a week or two. I went to Mexico. Before that, I did a big

show where we went through the Bear versus Bull case for every contender. Unfortunately, I feel like

we left the Ave section TBD, partly by design, because I feel like we haven the Ave section TBD partly by design because I feel like we

haven't really seen the full version of this team so I felt like it was kind of unfair to evaluate

them at the time part of it was just time constraints and we just sort of ran out of time but I knew

that we'd circle back to it and do the full deep dive treatment here and that's what we're going to

do AJ I'll let you kick off here I think the natural starting point for us in talking about do the full deep dive treatment here and that's what we're going to do.

AJ, I'll let you kick off here. I think the natural starting point for us in talking about the abs at the midseason point

and the season they've had so far is what this team's look like since McKenzie Blackwood's

arrival, the impact he's had on the team both from a goal prevention and save making perspective but I think also just

what it means within the grand scheme of the team structure I think all it's been well documented

kind of the the strain in the relationship between the goaltending and the team the lack of faith

and then kind of how that bleeds into your teams play.

And so we've seen all of that.

It's looked like an entirely different team now that they're actually getting saves.

And I feel like we've at least gotten kind of an answer to the question of like how much of it was defensive struggles in front of the goalie and how much it was the goalie just being unreliable and not making saves because McKenzie Blackwood has stepped into this environment and has looked phenomenal so far.

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