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

Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Ditri Filipovich. And joining me on today's show is my good pal, Andy McNeil. Andy, what's going on, fellow?

Hey, nothing. Just gap in the NHL as usual and trying to kind of make my way through this busy Tuesday.

But liking what I'm seeing so far, it's been a fun start of the season.

It has, yeah.

So we had a blast chatting a couple weeks ago.

We had Dom on and we bounced around some ideas back and forth that was right before

the season was set to kick off for real on the first busy night of action. And so I wanted

to have you back on now that we've had about two weeks' worth of games to catch up on some stuff here.

I thought it would be a useful exercise for us today to kind of just bounce around the league

and talk about some relevant trends we've noticed from the first two weeks, how much about we're buying,

what kind of stuff we've noticed and all that good stuff. So here's the first thing I

want to talk about. How much the market has adjusted to teams based on the preseason expectations

we had for them, acknowledging that I think pretty much everyone right now, the blues have been

the straggler, they're up to four games now, the sharks are up top playing eight games so

far. So everyone's played at least around five or six games.

How quick is too quick in terms of like adjusting our priors and accepting what we're

seeing so far this season?

So I'd be lying if I said I didn't make little weeks, you know, in the early parts of the season,

but for the most part, I'm flying totally on my preseason projections to make predictions now.

And a good example of that was on Monday, the Washington Capitals played the New Jersey Devils in New Jersey.

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