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

Welcome to the Hockey Piedocast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy, Ryan.

And Ryan, what's going on, man?

Not much, Temea. Thanks for having me.

Oh, my pleasure.

Also joining us, we're doing a three-person show, which I haven't done in a while.

So I'm excited to try to navigate these bumpy waters is our mutual Fred, Max, Bulbin. Max, what's going on, man?

Not a lot. How are you guys doing? We're doing well. This is going to be fun. We're going to

talk Detroit Red Wings. We decided to reconvene. I think I had you guys on at roughly this time last year as well. And we did a bit of a state of the union talking

about the Red Wing. So excited to get into it. I guess, Ryan, I'll pitch it to you here.

What's the vibe like right now around the team, around people covering it, around the fan base?

Because there's a clear sort of improvement this year compared to

last year and basically the three or four years before that in terms of goal differential

in terms of point percentage, all that good stuff. But are people satisfied with like how much

of an improvement or how much of a step this team has

taken so far this season?

It's a good question. Max and I are already laughing. You know what? The vibe is definitely not

at its highest point right now, but it doesn't mean that the team hasn't improved. Like you mentioned,

Dimitri, You can see clearly

in their game the ways they've taken a step. Some of that is the players they brought in. Some of that

is Derek Lolon in his systems and trying to implement a little bit more of a sustainable risk management

style of a hockey game, pretty much teaching this team how to win if and when they have a better roster.

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