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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEO cast. My name is Dimitrappelovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Ryan Lambert. Ryan, what's going on in?

Oh, not a whole lot. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you just got to do a full, we're going to do a full, a retrospective

of a Mullet Arena deep dive and break down here in the P.D.O.cast, so looking for that.

Let's start talking about the Oilers, though, because you recently wrote about them already

B-Ringside, a big piece on them. And I actually, in thinking back, I feel like I haven't necessarily

talked that much about them on the show so far this season.

Don't have been passing here or there, but certainly haven't done a full breakdown by any

means. And they're having an interesting season to say the least, right? My initial inclination

is to be like, well, it's the same as it ever was. But I actually think that there's some kind of like unique circumstances so far this

season where it actually is at least statistically a bit different than it was, you know,

last year or in the past, whenever this team's kind of struggled.

Yeah, for sure.

I guess the big thing is that everybody thought it was going to be different this year.

They went out and they got the goaltending that, you know, we've kind of felt they were lacking

for the last few years and they, you know, they were going to get a full season of a Vander

Kane or so they thought.

And I think maybe there was also some thinking that like some people would step up

on the back end and, you know, like Darnell Nurse would have a better season and they'd

be able to deploy Tyson Barry more effectively and that kind of thing.

And it just didn't happen.

Well, here's the thing. even after utterly just curb stomping

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