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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Amitra Filipovich and joining me is my good buddy,

Shana Goldman. Shane, what's going on? Hey, how's it going for you? It's good. It's good. It's good to have

you on for the first time the season, first of hopefully many. We're going to start the conversation

with not the most uplifting topics because I wanted to have you on to go through a little

panic meter for teams that had

high expectations heading into the year and that have been playing some uneven hockey,

let's say generously of late. And we're going to go through them. We're going to kind of try

to figure out what's going wrong, what's going right. If there's reason for hope moving forward,

how worried we are about some of the underlying trends and see how far it takes us. Who knows? Maybe we'll come out on the,

on the positive end of things as we talk it out, but we'll see. I'll give you the pick. Do you

want to start with the Leafs or the Oilers first? Obviously, in, you know, in the Oilers case,

a much more extreme degree for this topic, but we're going to get to both of them,

and I'll give you the floor to pick which one I want to start with. You know what? Let's go Leaves first.

Let's go max chaos, max drama first. I feel like they have it a little bit more amped up right now,

because it's like it always is with Toronto. It is. So they're now six, 5, and 2 coming off of last night's loss against

Ottawa. The Bruins, you look up at the standings in the Atlantic Division, the Bruins are already

up seven points on them with one game in hand. It's like that meme where it's like the guy with

the beard. I think it's Robin Williams from Jumaji. It's like, what year is it? It's like, this is, you could just tell me this from any year over the past decade, essentially, and it would

just be true to form. I guess the difference this year, though, is we went into the year,

maybe expecting this would finally be a slightly different case, and it's just basically as much

things change, they stay the exact same in the Atlantic Division.

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