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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast.

My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me, as always a Sunday, my good buddy Thomas Drance. Tom. What's going on, man?

I'm doing well. It was the absolute apex sports watching weekend of the year, right? And that included an awesome slate of hockey games all day, Friday. I've been glued to my television.

Happy Thanksgiving to our American listeners.

I hope you and your family has had a great start to the holiday season,

as we did up here,

feasting on mostly hockey as opposed to turkey and stuffing.

It's going to be a fun Sunday special.

We've got a list of topics of stuff that caught our eye watching hockey over the past week.

And I want to start with the Tampa Bay Lightning, who are certainly the hottest team in the east right now.

Obviously what the abs in Wilder are doing out west also bears mentioned. But they've gone 15 and 3 in their last 18 games since a 1-4-2 start to the season.

7-0 in their last 7 games was a 30-10 goal differential, and they've been doing it

the past handful of games without Brain Point, Victor Headman, Ryan McDonough, Eric

Churnack.

That accounts for nearly 30 million in salary.

And I wanted to shout out their blue line because I was watching them very closely this weekend.

They had a back-to-back started off on Friday in Detroit.

Then they played at MSG on Saturday.

And what they did to the Rangers in particular in that Saturday game was about as clinical a performance from start to finish as you're going to see from a team.

Just an absolute beat down at 5-on-5. Shots on goal were to 10, high-angered chances 16 to 4 during 5-on-5 played. The execution right from the opening jump was so immaculate for them. And the blue line they're using right now with this top pair of J.J. Moser playing with Darren Radish. We're going to speak a lot about those two guys. Our guy, Charles Edward Dashtu, I was saying I want to start calling

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