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 Filipovich and joining me somehow for the first time ever on the PTO cast,

first of many, hopefully.

It's my good buddy, Lance Lascouse.

Lance, what's good on, man?

Dimitri, thanks for having me.

Always a pleasure to talk to you.

And yeah, I think, you know, first time, hopefully for more more. Oh, well, I mean, we're going to be talking about our Sabres.

So there's going to be plenty to get to, and I'm sure it's going to be a fun time and I'm looking forward to it.

So a lot of topics to get to.

Let's get into it from a team perspective first because this is clearly good timing on our part to be doing a Sabres debrief.

They're coming off a road trip that was wildly successful for them. They have points in

seven straight games. They're up to a 94 point pace on the season now. You know, they're one point

behind Pittsburgh with the same number of games play. They're two points behind Washington with three

games in hand. And I noticed Dom's model at the athletic has them at 16% probability to make the playoffs.

And that seems at first blush to be low on the lower end of things for me because,

you know, both wildcard spots as I mentioned have kind of opened up here for the taking.

And I think Dom's model and he admit as much, you know, makes into account previous performance as well. And that's almost,

I feel like, irrelevant for the Sabres team just because it's so fundamentally different to group

of young players than it has been in the past. So considering all that, I think, you know,

things are unequivocally trending up. And this is a good time for us to chat about kind of

this recent performance we've seen for them. Of course, yeah, and I think strength the schedule ahead seems really difficult.

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