Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good

buddy, Dom, what's going on in? Not too much. How are you doing? I'm doing well. We're doing a

Friday show. We're going to close out the week with a kind of a look around the top of the league in

particular. I wanted to have you on. You obviously did your

season long projections and ranking every team prior to the start of the year. We can do without

the small sample caveats. I think everyone knows everyone's played around four or five games

so far, but we're going to try to make do with what we've seen so far and kind of take stock

where we're at and maybe where stuff do with what we've seen so far and kind of take stock where we're at

and maybe where stuff differs a little bit from preseason projections and stuff we're either

excited about or nervous about.

I've got a couple mailbag questions for you later as well to tie into that.

So it's going to be a fun show.

I want to just start off with this and talking about the Carolina Hurricanes in particular

because you had a

hundred and four point projection for them before the season uh they finished with 99 last year

had 110 plus the three years prior i was looking at your stanley cup odds in particular at this point

and acknowledging that it is still super early and none of these teams are going to look like they do now by the time we get to the playoffs. But as things currently stand,

you've got them in a tier up top with the Oilers, Avs, Golden Knights, and Lightning,

with the Lightning actually at top that mix. Van Duels him at plus 800, which is kind of in the same

mix or same tier. They include the Panthers as well, which is fair, just considering the reputation

and the fact that if they're at full health, there's certainly going to be a force to be

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