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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEO cast. My name is Amitra Velpovich and joining me for today's edition

of the Friday mailbag. It's my good pal, Jack, Razor, Jack. What's going on, man? I'm doing pretty

well. Trying to get back in the swing of things after getting back from the world juniors, but

I think I'm starting to find my footing again here in Toronto. I'm heading to Manitoba in two days so I'm too much time to get comfortable but it's uh it's nice to finally be back on I love it all right yeah so we're going to do the uh the mailbag as usual on Fridays if you want to get on the fun and future editions keep sending them in uh and let's get right right to it. We've got a lot of fun stuff to get through and only 50 minutes to do it.

So here's the first one, not Mikey Davis. And I don't know this user, but I suspect it actually is

Mikey Davis and they're just trying to throw us off the scent. Ask, why is nobody talking about

how quietly dominant Nikita Kutarov has been so far this

season?

Well, when you have players who have been really good like that for a while and aren't, you know,

like literally right at the top of the scoring charts, I feel like they kind of flip through

the cracks, especially with Kuturov, who has had the injuries and everything, obviously.

I think he's kind of gone somehow a little under the radar, despite the fact that he has

two cup rings and another finals appearance.

I mean, he is having an excellent year.

I think it's an improvement on the year that he had last year, not only in terms of points,

but also in terms of, you know, the underlines and everything, too.

But he's undeniably, I mean, one of the best playmakers in the sport,

and he's a huge reason why the Lightning have continued to look like a true cup contender,

even while some of the other teams near the top of the standings last year have faltered a little bit.

So, you know, nothing but good things to say about his season. But it doesn't surprise me that a player like him might slip through the cracks when we have so many shiny new toys to talk about. Yeah, there's obviously a bit of lightning fatigue, just the fact that the team has played in three straight cup finals. We've talked about them plenty during those stretches. And he himself had had the 128 point season a few years ago

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