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

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich. And joining me as my good buddy, AJ, Hey, Flee, AJ. What's going on?

How's it going, friend? It's going well. It's always a blast to have you on. It's been a while since we've chatted. I believe the last time we had you on was when we were at peak, Marty Natchez Mania. It was about 10 games or so into his abs tenure.

We spent a full episode breaking down all the impacts that he had had on the top line, on the power play.

We're going to take us sort of a bigger picture view of the abs this time and the way they've been playing, especially since the trade deadline, right?

And I'd argue that, you know, we,

we generally tend to look at heading into the postseason the final 20, 25 games as a good

barometer of how well teams are playing. I'd argue that for this app team specifically, the trade

deadline marks such a fair point of delineation for evaluating them because they went out and obviously added Brock Nelson, Charlie Coyle to go along with the Lindgren trade previously and totally revamping their goalie position.

And it kind of put that all together.

It really put the finishing touches on this full roster makeover.

They've underwent this year, right?

They've used 47 different skaters or 47 different players, 41 skaters, six goalies.

It's been a year of turnover, a year of change.

And this version of the abs that we've seen since March 7th is an entirely different one.

They've gotten, what, 10, 2 and 2 in that time.

And so I wanted to break down what we're seeing from them during this stretch and kind of

comparing and contrasting, I guess, this version compared to the one we'd seen previously in the year.

Yeah, I think the number one thing that we look at is that their lineup balance is better.

You know, given the prices that they paid for for nelson coil and lindgren you know their their balance better be

right like it needed to be they couldn't go out and continue to be the same top heavy group

just given how much they invested in this team.

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