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 Dmitri Filipovich.

And joining me to close out the week

with another mailbag is my good buddy, Matt Lark, and Matt, what's going on in?

Dmitri, thank you for bringing me in as your closer. It feels like I don't know why I'm starting out

with baseball analogies. Maybe it's because the blue days are back, but I feel like I'm coming in to help you close it out in the ninth.

So I appreciate it.

Well, hopefully you're warmed up and you're going to bring the high heat and put this away, put this week away.

So it should be fun.

We've got some fun mailbag questions.

I sent them over to you in preparation for this.

And we're going to see how many we can work through here today on this on this lovely

Friday so here's the first one from Craig heading into game 80 game 83 would you rather have

a top five power play or a top five penalty kill now I obviously think this is an interesting

kind of thought provoking exercise regardless but I purposely pick this one first to help

tee up a conversation that you and I can have about your awesome series over on Daily Faceoff

where you used the history of recent cup champions to help kind of construct an ingredients list

for what shared attributes or traits those teams had the one of winning it all.

And so one of those ingredients was special teams and kind of the relevance of it or importance

of it and how that's kind of been changing over time.

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