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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey-Pedio cast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me as always on Sunday, my good buddy Thomas Trans, Tom. Tom, what's going on, man?

Hey, buddy. Looking forward to the end of this regular season. The preseason feel to this last run of games is wearing me down.

But I suppose the good side of that is at least the contrast with the playoffs when they

begin will feel even sharper.

Night and day, yeah.

However, my thirst to get through this is like, you know, unquensionably significant at the

moment.

And, you know, I have this unfortunate misanthropic disease where I look

constantly at the standings and think to myself, boy, you know, the Canucks grinding out that

point against the Minnesota Wild last night really would have mattered a lot if them in Utah

were still jockeying for the final play-in spot, right?

Or, man, these games in the Eastern Conference between the Highlanders and the Rangers

and the Red Wings and the Blue Jackets sure could have an awful lot of stakes if the

NHL were open-minded about expanding the playoff field the way they should have several years ago.

Counterpoint.

All those teams you listed, I think I'm good at 82 games.

I don't need more.

I've seen enough.

You know what?

I don't need the Canucks playing any more high stakes games.

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