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

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dmitrari Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy Thomas Trans.

Thomas, what's going on, man?

Not much. Looking forward to the end of the season. Really don't like the incentives at this time of year.

Watching two teams get backdoor eliminated by a coach who didn't realize that he'd already been eliminated, so he pulled his goalie fruitlessly.

Is that really, like, that felt like Oli Yokinen missing on a shootout attempted MSG

to decide who made the playoffs, who missed the playoffs.

Like, that felt like it's just not how it feels to me like it should be done and then people

will say well it's been so riveting for the last two weeks it's like first of all it's mostly been

bad hockey it has secondly the climax matters like you don't watch game of thrones get to the final

episode and be like well what an exciting ride even though that made no sense well you can still enjoy

the steps along the way though you can i'm not saying I don't like Game of Thrones, but I'm saying the ending sucked

and that changes how we talked about it. It should change how we talk about what's been, you know,

apparently the most interesting, pointy end of the season. And then I watch Vancouver,

Calgary, and I've seen this Canucks team defend all season.

Okay?

I've seen how they work.

They're bought in how rarely they trade chances off the rush.

They played at all-star game pace.

Yeah.

In a game that clinched the division and also, you know, put them ahead of, like, Winnipeg for second in the conference, which matters not at all. But shouldn't it matter? Shouldn't it matter? It should. It should. You're

coming in hot here. Well, it would if you had to play in, right? Like, you would if the reward was

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