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

Welcome to the Hockeypedio cast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me for the first time this season is my good buddy Charlie O'Connor. Charlie, what's going on, man?

Hey, Dimitri, it's great to be back on the show. I'm excited to have you on. The Flyers right now, as you all know, are 16, 10 and 3, they they're seventh in the league, or seventh in the east,

I should say, in point percentage, fourth in the metro.

Of course, the two metro teams they're ahead of are the hurricanes and the penguins.

The two teams they're behind are the islanders and capitals, just as we all drew up at the start

of the season.

But they have got this 11 to 3 and 2 record since giving the sharks their first

win of the season. And that is a loss that at the time certainly looked egregious, right?

And it was easy to make fun of. But I think with each passing day, looks less so as the sharks

finally start to look like a real NHL team and actually rack up some wins of their own.

But for as good as that is,

from like a results perspective, we're going to talk a lot about that and sort of how they've gotten there. I think that element of the how in terms of how they're getting these results is

what's really interesting to me and why I wanted to have you on today. And then also to kind of

have a conversation about

some of these combos going on behind the scenes now because of the success, right? Just because

this team was expected to look and perform a certain way heading into the season. And now we're

about at the 30 game mark. And it's just subverted our expectations so much. So that, of course,

causes this whole conversation about rebuilding and how to do it properly and what the goal is for this season and everything in Philly. So I think there's a lot for us to unpack there. What do you think from your perspective has been the most sort of interesting or eye-opening part of these first 30 games in terms of what surprised you the most or what you think is most

notable from this Flyers group.

You could give me an hour and I wouldn't be able to go through everything that surprised me

about this team.

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