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

Welcome to the HockeyPedocast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich, And joining me is my good buddy, Jack Khan. Jack, what's going on, man?

We're back. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you, too. So here's the plan for today. We've got a couple of questions from the P.D.O.cast Discord that we're going to get into. But first, I want to do a deep dive on an incredibly fun developing story.

And that's this year's Columbus Blue Jackets.

Now, I wish people could see our shared text message thread because it's just me at all hours of the day and specifically night late into the evening, badgering you about whether you've seen what the blue jackets just

did the latest cool goal they scored what they're running offensively all that good stuff and

i just want to explore that and kind of share that love with everyone because that's what this

podcast is all about that's what the platform is for and i've just been increasingly captivated by

their playing style. I've been

excited about watching them play. And so I want to use the start of today's show to get into all

of that with you. I gave you some homework to go and watch some of the tape, see what you're

seeing from them with Top Line in particular. And I think the listeners are going to be interested

to hear us break it all down.

So what do you what are you seeing from them, why they're generating so many good looks and so many goals in particular and kind of what they're doing with that top line, especially when they're out there with top defenseman Zach Wrenski to get it done offensively?

Okay.

Okay.

First of all, like I haven't gotten this many text messages with like this level of

enthusiasm since, uh, since I was, I was single like 10 years ago, right? So, so, you know,

props to, to you, Dimitri, for really getting me to look at this because, yes, like this is a good

line. So we're talking about

broncov monahan who's hurt now but it was mostly monahan and marchenko right and the thing with

this line is like it's very very cliche and i kind of roll my eyes when when coaches talk about

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