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

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast. My name is Dimitri Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy, Max, Boltman, Max. What's going on, man?

Hey, Dimitri, it's good to see again.

It is. It's been a while.

And I'm excited to have you on, do a little Detroit Red Wings deep dive.

They're through 32 games now, which seems kind of crazy to say the start of the season is flown by.

That's nearly 40% of their regular season schedule. And so we've got a pretty good sample here to work with. They are out west right now completing a six-game road trip. It's gone 3-1-1 so far. The only regulation defeat coming Thursday night against Edmonton. And I want to break all of that down. But just taking a bigger picture view of where they're at right now and kind of trying to

sort through this mess, not only in Atlantic, but I'd say the East as a whole where every team

right now in that conference is between 30 and 40 points essentially.

And that includes a couple teams that are at the bottom a couple teams up top but for the

most part pretty much everyone is within four or five points of each other which means that

making any sort of definitive statements one way or another is a bit of a risky proposition

because we're one good or bad week away for any of these teams from either looking like they're

going to miss the playoffs yet again or being firmly locked in a playoff spot.

So all of this stuff is very up in the air right now.

But just through these first 32 games, kind of what's the feel for you with this Red Wings team?

In particular, comparing it, I think, to the past couple versions we've seen where around this time of year, they were hanging around a

playoff spot, looking like they were building a bit of positive momentum, but ultimately falling

short.

Well, there's definitely been a roller coaster factor to it.

And I think most of that, honestly, is driven by exactly what you just laid out, the fact that

you go on a two or three game losing streak and you can drop from the

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