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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.cast, my name is Amitri Filipovich.

And join me today is my good buddy, Shana Goldman.

Shana, what's going on?

Hey, thanks for having me.

All right, so here's the plan for today.

We are going to talk about some initial impressions from the first couple night of games.

And Shana and I are both aware that talking about one game samples

and pretending like they're the be all and all is obviously not the wisest thing.

Like, yeah, we understand how little it can be in the grand scheme of things.

There's 81 more of these that come at least.

So all that in mind, though, it's all we've got to work with at the moment.

And so you and I thought it would be

fun to kind of bounce around some ideas of like initial takeaways, initial impressions, things we

saw from these first couple of day of games and hopefully identify some things that are actually

going to be relevant for people to keep an eye on the rest of the way as well. So I'll give the floor

to you here first. What's the first kind of impression or takeaway from the first two or three nights of games that really kind of caught your eye?

I mean, we've seen one game from a couple teams, and I think that defines what we're going to see for the rest of the year. Like, whatever it is, that's it. We're done for the year. The Crackens, they're winning every game. Cole Calfield, he's going to have, you know, 164 goals. Like, this is what we've seen, right?

Absolutely. All right. So what do you go? What's your first thing?

Okay. Let's talk about one of our favorite players, Mark Stone, and his return. I think every, the quintessential Markstone

that we expect to see, and we didn't know exactly what we were going to see, given his

injury status last year and the rumors of his demise being so greatly exaggerated. I think it was

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