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

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast. My name is Dmitra Filippovich. and joining me is my good buddy, John Mattis. John, what's going on, man?

Hey, what's happening? It's been a while. What's going on, Dimitri? It's good. It's good to have you back on. I was, during the Jack Hahn episode, we just did. I was talking about how I'm in Seattle for Canucks Cracken and other sporting activities over the weekend.

And you are fresh off a trip of your own to Buffalo to watch the Buffalo Sabres play the Pittsburgh Penguins.

And this is the good stuff.

I love having you on boots on the ground reporting.

Going to be talking about what's going on behind the scenes, the sense you're getting

from talking to people around the team, all that good stuff.

This is what it's all about.

But it's good to have you back on.

And we're going to get into the listener questions here.

We've got some fun mailbag questions.

The listeners of this show always deliver, always with fun outside the box, thought-provoking

ideas. So we're going to see how far we can get with it and have some fun with it. Well, we're on

the topic of the Sabres. We got a question about them, and I think that's a good segue into getting

into this conversation because it's on top of mind and you were just there, as I said. And so Kobe asks, what's up with the Sabres?

This was the season they were going to fight for a playoff spot. And sure, they won some games,

but it feels like they haven't been doing it in a very convincing way, however. What do the

numbers suggest? Are they struggling as much as it seems? And what should they do to change that?

So you were there. That was probably one of their more encouraging

performances, especially the way it ended, right? It felt like that really could have not gone

off the rails because it's not like they were getting blown out. But if they lifelessly lose that

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