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 Filipovich and joining me as always on a Sunday for a Sunday special, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

I'm doing well, buddy. I've been traveling. I've been watching a lot of Canucks hockey. I think it's broken my hockey brain at this point, given that I've seen 10 consecutive losses and those losses are of a variety of convincing that I'm just not used to seeing. It's true one-way traffic. And also that's making it hard for me to evaluate the players that I'm seeing on other teams. Like I walked in and I was like, man, McDavid, what a freak show performance last night. And you're like, yeah, but and of course you're dead right. It was a glorified scrimmage. I mean, that's the issue with it, right?

Like all these evaluations, as you're saying, are almost write-offs because it's just

not really a real proxy for what the other games, these guys are going to have to play,

are going to be.

That's the competitiveness of these Canucks games right now.

I actually had in my notes if you tried to bring up the Canucks I wanted to institute some sort of an embargo here. Yeah, yeah. And then right out of the gate, we already started. Perfect. Let's go. What a relief. Yes. Okay, so last week, we went through our list of teams on Tilt because of how their season's been going lately. And I think we were onto something

with our list because in the week since, and we highlighted seven teams, one of them made a coaching

change, the Blue Jackets. One of them put out a public letter to their fans acknowledging how much

their season's gone in the toilet so far than New York Rangers. And then for the senators, their best player

came out in a postgame scrum last night after yet another loss and said, you've got to make

more than 10 saves to win a game. And of course, Jake Sanderson is very correct there. It was a

remarkable perfect storm to you, right? Because the Sends are up 5'3 late. I think there's four minutes

left. The Habs have had a million of these dramatic late-game comebacks now. They pull the goalie,

score two, winning overtime, and win a game where they managed seven five-on-five shots on

goal in 47-plus minutes of play. Remarkable stuff. What a tough scene for the senators to lose that one.

Let's, I feel like last week we focused on like the negative stuff, right? Sure. And I think it was a useful exercise, but ultimately we were talking about teams that are really struggling. I wanted to start off today's show on the opposite on the spectrum and focus on a couple teams that have been playing good hockey, killing it, but also near and dear to our hearts. And we're going to stay very on brand year because the first two teams I've got on my notes for

today are the Buffalo Sabres and the Utah Mamet. Oh, let's go. Two teams we'd love to talk about. And I want to start with the Sabres. They lose an overtime against the depleted wild team on Saturday afternoon, but bank another point in the process. they've gone 15, 2 and 1 in their last 18 games are up inside the top

10 in points percentage. And they have a fascinating upcoming stretch here. They go on the road for

five straight. On Monday, their next game is against the Carolina Hurricanes, which I think is

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