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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitri Philipovich and joining me as always on a Sunday for our Sunday special.

My good buddy, Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Dmitri, coming to you live from Montreal.

I've been, well, you know what?

I've at least gotten to see a lot of the teams that we'll be talking about today.

A lot of, you know, a lot of variants in the NHL right now because we've talked about

a lot.

There is real parity if you're not an elite team, right?

I mean, I do think there's eight teams that are clearly a cut above.

And I suspect that those eight teams, like, you're going to feel comfortable in the first

round, except in the matchups where those eight teams are playing one another, picking those

teams. Like, I think they'll be favored, too. Like, I think you'll see it reflected in the betting

markets. Those teams are a cut above. But, man, everyone else is so mid. And when everyone else is mid, you know, you're going to get

these crazy inexplicable runs, like the Maple Leafs getting hot with William Nealander out of the

lineup that confuse people when, you know, it's actually not that difficult to understand that once Austin Matthews got going again,

the Maple Leafs were far more imposing, regardless of what the rest of the cast looked like.

Like, that's not, you know, some sort of quantum equation to solve here.

That's Austin Matthews is dunking on people every shift again,

which by the way,

also huge deal it feels like to me for the American Olympic team.

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