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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitra Filippovich, and joining me as my good buddy, Steve Peters. Pidi, what's going on, man?

Yeah, another day of busy hockey and trying to track this playoff stuff to drive me insane,

Demetri, these percentages and who's going to make what and who wins what and looking at schedules.

I'm literally going out of my mind with under 20 games to go.

Yeah, especially in both conferences, the wildcard races, not only is it within two points

the respective races, but also there's like three or four teams involved in each one, right?

So it's quite a lot of jam.

I think I had Dom Lusitianan who does the playoff probability models for the athletic last week or two weeks ago,

and we were talking about the Red Wings and the Blue Jackets at the time,

and his model really puts a lot of stock into strength of schedule the rest of the way in terms of how many

playoff teams you're going to go up against, whether there's easier matchups along the way and that's

kind of skews it quite a bit i think the red wings for example have a very tough one which is why

despite the fact that there are only two points out or whatever or one point um their strength

schedule is so tough that their actual probability is incredibly low so the standings can be a little

bit deceiving i think the trickiest thing and we're going to get into the West in particular,

because I want to talk to you about Utah and Wednesday night's games

and some of the stuff we saw there.

I think the trickiest part is when there's this many teams involved,

and there's so many three-point contests,

and you've got head-to-heads between them,

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