Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri

Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEO cast. My name is Ditri Philpovich and joining me as always on a Sunday,

my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Dmitri, not much. You know, I watched a lot of Canucks hockey this week and the Canucks do not

have the most fascinating schedule at the moment. A lot of Seattle and Boston, Maclin Celebrini. So that was nice.

At least I got some Celebrini in my life. But overall, I thought a pretty interesting week.

Buffalo Sabres win streak came to an end. And more than anything, I think, what the Buffalo Sabres

really told us with this 10-game win-streek,

first of all, that at the very least, this team still has high highs in them, which is good,

because we haven't seen it in a bit. I am buying them more than I thought I might have when

this win streak started, just because of how many good players they have. But more than that,

you win 10 in a row

the way that they did. And it gets you to the fringes of the wildcard. If you don't start fast,

right? That's the lesson. More than anything, the first six weeks can really set you behind the

eight ball where you need the sort of win streak that Buffalo was able to put together just to get back to the fringes of it. And I do think that

that's worth bearing in mind, more in the West than in the East where it's still extremely

compressed. But if you're in that boat sub 40 points, it looks like you're only six or seven points back, you're a world

away.

It's a canyon.

It's a canyon.

You need to win and win and win and win again times 10 just to get back to the point where

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