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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey-PedioCast. My name is Dimitra Vilippovich. And joining me is my good buddy Thomas

Duran's. Tom, what's going on, man? Not much, buddy. Back from a week in Puerto Rico. So,

admittedly, I wasn't tracking hockey all that closely while I was gone. I watched the Canucks games.

So I watched two blowouts. And then I was at the Canucks game against Edmonton their win last night.

So back on the back on the grind, at least for Saturday's slate.

But do want to just out of respect for our audience, be very clear about sort of the fact that right now this week doing this Sunday special,

the least amount of like raw game center live time I've put in all season.

Which still puts you in the hundredth percentile in hockey media.

So I think you're going to be okay.

It's a beautiful thing because we are back together here for the first time in 2025.

We did a show last week for our Sunday special, but it was remotely

with you in Toronto before your trip. It's going to be a fun one, because I think last week we

sort of focused our theme. We're going to try to do some themes here for each show, right, and kind of

define them that way. Last week, we really focused on the wildcard races. And I think that was right, because one of the most

interesting and captivating developing stories for me, especially out east, is how we're seeing

this sort of changing of the garden we've been waiting for with the young teams taking a step,

playing much better hockey beneath the hood, and making the Eastern Conference much more interesting

than it's been in previous seasons. I wanted to focus today's show more on the teams that

are maybe a step ahead or a layer above or a cut above in terms of we're under seven weeks now

from the trade-ed line. It feels like for the next couple weeks leading up to that,

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