Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dimitri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, David Gastio. David, what's going on in?

I'm doing great. It's not like anything dramatic has happened in the past week to make hockey more stressful.

Certainly not. It's your first appearance on the show here this season. Usually, um, I save you for heavy usage come the playoffs,

uh, because the stars have made a couple long runs here in the past couple years. And it's given us

a lot of opportunities to break stuff down and really get in the weeds with their playoff

series. But it had been too long. And I wanted to check in with you before then and talk about

where the Dallas stars are at

at the 50 game mark here, in particular,

as it relates to sort of previewing down the stretch,

the trade headline where they're obviously

going to be one of the heavy players and the central division

and sort of their standing within the hierarchy

of the central and the west and all that good stuff.

Now, today's conversation is kind of clouded, I guess, by the level of uncertainty regarding

Mero Haskinen's health and the lack of a true status update of the severity and timeline.

We go worried today.

He's deemed week to week for now.

Status, obviously, for the Four Nations tournament, highly in doubt.

More scanning and all that stuff to come following the bizarre incident on Tuesday night where Mark Stone just dove into his leg.

And it certainly didn't look good in real time.

Neither you or I are professional doctors here.

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