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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name's Dmitri Filippovich. Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.

My name is Dmitri Filipovich and making her triumphant, albeit far too belated for my liking,

return to the PTO cast.

It's my good buddy, Emily Kaplan.

Emily, what's going on?

I know.

It feels like way too long since we've chatted last. So I was super pumped when you reached out.

And I know we're going to have a great conversation.

Yes, I'm excited.

So here's the plan for today's show.

We're going to bounce around the league.

We're going to chat about because you've been very active in this first week of the season with all of your TV responsibilities going from ring to rink, covering a bunch of different games and teams. And so I want to talk about those teams you've been around kind of the first week of the season, what you're hearing, what you were seeing while you were there, and work our way through that.

And now we've got a couple of listener questions at the end that will help guide us as well.

So let's start with the Sabres because you were in Buffalo to do that Sabres lightning game most recently. And it's a bit of an interesting vibe for

the Sabres this year because last year was all good vibes, right? They entered the season with no

real expectations, no pressure. It was just a bunch of young players. And Granato allowed them to

play at like kind of just like freewheeling back and forth hockey, didn't really care about

defense, didn't really care about defense didn't

really care if it was a six five game they were just doing their thing and so they put up great

numbers it was really fun to watch i think everyone is excited for them this season and they got off to

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