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 Dmitri Filipovich. And joining me is my buddy, David Dwarc. David,

what's going on, man? Dimitri, good to see you, man. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, no, exciting times.

Coming off a huge win by the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night against Toronto Maple Leafs.

They tied the game in the final minute.

They wanted an overtime to avoid losing, I believe, a fifth straight game, which pulls them within one point of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who will talk about more in the second half

of today's show for the final wildcard spot in the east.

Now the penguins do have a game in hand on them, but they're right there.

And so I guess the first way that I wanted to start this conversation, because we're

going to focus on the Panther side of things here, is for me, remarkably lost in everything

that's otherwise gone wrong for them this season and the list of those things is very long,

is the fact that offensively, if you pull up all of their stats on either

evolving hockey or a natural staterick or any publicly available stats say that you want to use

at least at first blush it appears that they're pretty much matching everything they did last

year offensively at the very least now the goals which is what we care about at the end of the day

which drives the results have been lagging a bit behind. But in terms of like the process

itself, at least statistically, it seems like it's pretty comparable to last year. Now,

that doesn't match, I think, anyone that's watched the team from start to finish so far. It doesn't

seem to match that. But it is interesting that at least from the amount

they're generating, it kind of seems pretty comparable. Yeah, it's, it's interesting, too,

when you look at like a guy like Brandon Montor who's filled in a gap for Aaron Neckblad,

who's scoring kind of fell off the cliff for, you know, a little bit this year. And last season,

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