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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmit Dimitra Filpovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Danny.

Shirey. Danny, what's going on, man? Just looking forward to another fantastic Penguins hockey game

on the way. Yes. They've become events that are marked on everyone's calendars around the world.

We're recording this actually on a Sunday evening prior

to their game against the Oilers. So apologies if something extra notable happens in that

contest and you're wondering why we aren't referencing it. But I felt that, you know, I felt comfortable

doing this big picture conversation about the state of the penguins and where they're at right now

with you because regardless of what happens tonight, like we've seen 58 games of this team so far.

I think we have a pretty painfully clear picture of what they are.

They've sort of helped reinforce that.

And if anything, that game on Saturday night against Calgary, our most recent viewing of

them.

And the breakdown in the third period, how it unfolded was sort of a perfect encapsulation

i guess of their limitations and where things have gone off the rails this season and that's sort

of just reinforced all of these concepts as well so i mean that was a backbreaking loss and a meltdown

in a season that's been that's been littered with them but even that one for their standards might

have must have been uh pretty impressive no doubt been it's been littered with them but even that one for their standards might have must have been out pretty impressive no doubt and it feels like for months now like every

next stretch they've had coming up it's like oh this is the stretch where they like really have to

hammer it down and figure their things out but this this, this Western trip that they're on right now,

I mean, it was, it was basically do or die and it was going to define whether, you know, I, I never

really thought that there was a scenario where they could even sweep the trip and then all of a sudden

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