Regressing to the mean since 2050, it's the Hockey Piedocast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey Pediocast. My name is Dmitra Filipovic and joining me here in studios, my good buddy, Satya Shah, what's going on, man?

Yo, Dimitri, I'm good, man. excited to be on your show. This time, you know, I got to say it's cool that we're doing it in studio here.

Yes.

It's a more professional setting. I do miss us doing it over a over a beer though. Yeah, at the we

work last year. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you make your annual appearance here in the Piedocas now that

we're officially co-workers. I feel like we can make this a more regular occurrence.

100%. I'm down with it. Um, because I always love chatting with you and it's awesome. Unfortunately,

it feels like every time we get together, it's like under the most somber circumstances where we're just like, all right, here we go again.

But that really is the case right now.

I know.

I mean, to some extent, you could probably just replay the conversations from a few years ago.

Yeah, just slightly different names, but same things.

Probably the same thing.

So coming into the year, I think it's safe to say there were elevated expectations for this connect's group that

they'd be competing for a playoff spot um you know thanks in large part they had a spirited effort

down the stretch last year after bruce bujo took over they were 32 15 and 10 which was 11th best

point percentage and what i always say to people is i you know everyone talks a big game especially

in the off season it's like all right you know we're going to be better this year we have high expectations high goals for this

group so I always say you got to look at the actions rather than the words right right and you

and I were talking before we went on air I think it was pretty clear to me watching just judging

what the Canucks did this offseason that I think internally they

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