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 Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Jack, Razor. Jack. What's going on, pal?

I'm okay. Congratulations on the new digs. Thanks. Yeah, a bit fancier of a setup than the podcast you and I have done previously. But otherwise, it'll be, the programming itself will be pretty much the same. So looking forward to chatting with you today.

So here's on the agenda for today's show.

We're going to open up the mailbag and answer as many of the listener questions as we can over the next hour that we received.

I tweeted out the bad signal earlier today asking for the questions and the listeners came through for us with some really good stuff.

So if you're listening right now and you feel like you missed out on getting one in this time,

I'm going to try to do these every Friday moving forward to mix in some listener interaction

and slide into the weekend with a fun show.

So you can get involved in future editions.

So with that said, let's jump right into this batch of questions.

And I've got a really good one here from Samuel Fleming, who asks, anecdotally,

it seems like bad teams are really, really bad at successfully and cleanly passing the puck.

Statistically, does that hold up?

And Jack, I'll let you go first on this one because my answer will be more anecdotal.

I know that you experimented this past off season with kind of working on a passing metric that kind of helped combine the passing data we do have into one to get a better sense of who the best passers in the game are.

You want to talk about that and then try to answer Samuel Fleming's question if there is some sort of

statistical evidence behind it?

Yeah.

So, I mean, the only way for us in the public to answer that question at all statistically

is to give a shout out to Corey Schneider's Altruy Zones project without which we'd be

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