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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockeypedio cast.

My name is Dmitra Filipovich, and joining me here in studio for our second show here today is my good buddy, Harmon Dile. What's going on?

Nothing much. Excited for the weekend. Excited for more hockey coming up.

Yeah, the Saturday schedule is really fun. A lot of big games. We're getting to that point where teams are getting under the 10 game mark left. So I thought it would be fun to have you on.

I took 10 days off.

As the listeners know, I came back today.

We did a part one with the stars skating coach, Luke Chocot, which is really fun.

Obviously focused it more on sort of off the ice stuff and his work with the stars,

haven't had a chance to talk about the playoff

races and what's been going on in the league for the past 10 days so I thought I'd have you on

and we just kind of rattle through the stuff we've been seeing recently the recent developments

especially I think out west like we can talk more about the eastern conference races it seems

like at this point recently, no one wants

that second wildcard spot. So I think there is some intriguing storylines there that we'll get

into at the end if we have time. But I want to center today's discussion about what we're seeing

in the West and especially starting off with this run, the Blues are on, right? I think you can

stretch it out even until starting in November 25th.

When they hired Jim Montgomery, they've clearly been a better team since. The underlying

numbers significantly improved. Their record slowly started to work its way up. But now they've

gone on this stretch where they're a league best 14, 2 and 2. Since the four nations break, they've

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