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

Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast. My name is Dmitriri Filipovich and joining me from a swanky hotel room in Ottawa where he's on assignment covering the Ottawa Senator as a team we'll be talking about at length here today. It's my good buddy John Mattis. John, what's going on in? Not a whole lot. Very swanky surroundings here. The score only puts me up in a five-star hotels. No. It's a quality

hotel. And yeah, I'm in, I'm in Ottawa digging in on these sense. That looks like an executive

suite with the king-sized bed behind you. So you're living the life. I didn't know the score

was glad to get down like that. Well, I guess now you know. But yeah, no, it's one of my favorite times of the hockey season where things are winding

down.

And I feel like the last few years, correct me if I'm wrong, Demetri, but the playoff races

haven't been that exciting, whereas this year we've actually had some kind of dramatics.

And I know it's starting to all tie up and we're starting to align the different playoff matches.

But it feels like this year has been a little bit different with the excitement down the stretch.

Yeah.

For the most part, it feels like at least now we have nearly all 16 teams book.

There is some seating ahead.

And obviously the flames still

have a bit of a say in the Western Conference wildcard picture. But selfishly for my purposes,

I'd like to do next week's big mega playoff preview of round one on Thursday night on the last night

of the season so that we can get it out there and people can listen before the game start on Saturday.

I was kind of dreading, waiting until the end of

Thursday night for actual clarity and then having to, you know, rush it on Friday and speed up that

process. So it seems like we're going to get our say there. But yeah, I mean, this, you know,

we're getting, we're recording this on a Thursday. It's officially one week left of the regular

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