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

Welcome to the Hockeypedio cast. My name is Ditra Filipovich. Enjoying me as he always does on

Fridays. My good buddy, Harmon Dyle, what's going on, man? Nothing much. Just excited to break down

some more NHL games from last night. It's a Friday. So we're going to pick a couple games from

the Thursday night slate, break down everything we saw while watching them, try to mix it up,

um, covering some teams that we haven't done so in previous Fridays. Let's start with this blue jackets Oilers game, which was a very wild contest. It finishes with a five, four score of the jackets, white knuckled it at the end and held on. It was such a chaotic game, especially that second period. I think the two teams, I stopped counting at

some point just because the total got so high. But if you told me, they combined for 10 posts

between the two of them in the game, I believe you. I think Columbus hit four alone in the first. The

puck was bouncing all over the place. We had Matthew Olivier stripping Connor McDavid cleanly,

leading to a goal, which you won't often see. The Oilers tie it with two goals in 140 of game time in the second, and then Columbus comes right back down in answers within 30 seconds. Let's start with the Oilers perspective here, because they're now eight, seven, and four in the season. They're in the midst of this brutal chunk of the schedule where they're playing eight of their nine games in the road they still got some contests against the canes caps lightning and panthers

coming up here away from home i think the encouraging development here beyond obviously the top

guys doing their thing and we're going to break that down more further was mattsvoy joining that

mix he got an extended look here playing on the top line with

McDavid and Drysaitle. They played 740 at 515 together in this game combined for three goals,

a 65% expected goal share. And he was doing a lot of the connective stuff that I think those two guys

need in particular from their third running mate, something Hyman does so well. Let's get into kind of

what we saw from him here, because obviously the past couple games, he's got a better promotion in terms of Ice Time, playing more with McDavid, but it felt like this was sort of the pinnacle of that, and he really came through for them in this one. Yeah, I think before this game, the production wasn't necessarily there, but you could see that Savoy was starting to round into form and doing a lot of positive things.

And I think last night you saw it really all come together.

I thought when Noblock went to loading McDavid and Drysadle up and having Savoy on that line,

Savoy as the third component on that line was able to take take some of the puck transportation load off of McDavid.

Where sometimes when McDavid's on that line, he's the only option as far as carrying puck's up the ice.

Whereas now with Savoy, it's not just a pace that he plays at, but you can see what some of his routes through the neutral zone,

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