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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitri Filip Filipovich and joining me is my good buddy, Dom, what's going on, man?

Not too much. How are we doing today?

We're doing well. We got a fun list of topics here to get through and you put out your 16 stats, the latest edition on the athletic.

And we're going to co-op a lot of it.

We're going to get some brand synergy going here.

And we're going to cross-promote.

And we're going to just break down a lot of the stuff you already wrote about, which is very fitting because it's all stuff I already wanted to talk about with you.

And so it worked out very nicely for us.

And I wanted

to spend the majority of today's show in particular, focusing on some of the trends we've noticed

post-Olympics now that we're pretty much a month out. I think every team's played around 10, 11 games

or so by now. And so I wanted to focus, especially on the teams who have had some post-Olympic break surges,

either establishing themselves in their respective playoff races or potentially throwing their

name into the consideration. And I think the first team we've got to talk about is the Columbus

Blue Jackets, who have been the hottest team in the league.

Just one regulation loss since the Olympic break, really dating back to Rick Bonas taken over in mid-January.

They're a league best 16, 2, and 4.

And they're still currently sitting just outside the playoff cut line based on raw points.

Wrong.

Points percentage. They're in. Of course. Well, that's what I was going to say. I was lining you up there to point out that they have a game in hand on all the teams they're competing with. And they also have, you know, a bunch of fun matchups ahead. But the important thing is they have outs, right? because they're two points back of the aisles for third in the metro.

They're three points back of the penguins for second,

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