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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDYOcast. My name is Dmitra Filipich, and joining me as my good buddy, Dom, what's going on in? Not too much. A very snowy day in Toronto here. I have a friend in Vancouver, and he's like, yeah, a lot of snow here. And apparently it's like 10 degrees this weekend. So, yeah, must be nice. It's beautiful. The rain's gone. The sun's coming out a little bit. Exciting times. We got a lot to talk about today. We're going to open up the mailbag from our listeners. I solicited some questions from us or for us from the PDOCS Discord. So if you're not in there yet, I absolutely join us so you can get questions in for future

additions. I've got about 10 or so here and we're going to try to run through as many of them as

we can. We're going to loop in the 16 stats you just put out on the athletic as well. I think that's

going to tie in nicely to a couple of questions we got. Here's the first one. Teams seem to be moving

towards prioritizing talent and depth up front while trying to just

get by on defense. Is this something that checks out via Dom's net rating? Now, I thought this

would be a nice little excuse for us to talk about the Tampa Bay Lightning, a team that we

spoke about a lot. Last time I had you on, That was at the end of the first month of the season.

The lightning was struggling.

I expressed my skepticism about your model and even the market in general,

having them ranked so highly in the East because I've been watching their games,

and I thought their defensemen looked quite cooked from a mobility perspective.

And since then, obviously, they've turned things around.

They're sitting atop the east.

Now, I don't know if I was necessarily wrong because a lot of the defensemen I was worried

about in Victor Headman, Ryan McDonough, Eric Chernak, all got hurt in the meantime, missed

a significant period of time.

They wound up promoting a bunch of more unheralded,

unproven defensemen in their stead into larger roles,

and they've taken off since.

So we can talk about the lightning here.

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