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

Welcome to the Hockey Piedocast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me here in studio on a lovely

Sunday of my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man? I'm excited. It was a great week of hockey.

It was a great Sunday hockey. That devil's avalanche game was a thriller, like a really remarkable

piece of competition between those two teams. Just fantastic. So yeah, no, I'm fired up,

and this is one of my favorite shows of the year. I've been watching a lot more hockey over the

course of this week, and I've found a lot of it thrilling. So this was actually, I found pretty

difficult to do. A lot of the teams, you know, in the middle, even toward like the 20th

sort of overall range in our watchability rankings are still teams that I'm pretty excited to watch

day to day. So state of the league is in a pretty good place, it seems. It's finally time we do it

today. As you're alluding to there, we're unveiling our watchability rankings for the 25, 26 NHL season. It's a special edition of the Sunday special. It's a nice wrinkle for us this year as well, right? Because we're getting to do it a couple weeks into the year versus our normal tradition of doing it in the preseason. So I think we actually have the benefit of a couple, or at least a handful of viewings for each team to work with.

This is an annual tradition for us.

And I think it's also a perfect opportunity to do it this week to really just get in our bag because, as you said, no one watches more hockey than us.

And the timing is immaculate with this upcoming Tuesday.

We're getting the frozen frenzy as well, right, with all 32 teams in action on the same night.

So hopefully this can serve as a bit of a template or a guide for people trying to keep up with all the craziness that night,

figure out what they should prioritize tuning into.

Let's quickly run through our methodology just so people know because obviously this isn't necessarily correlated at all with the standings or how good teams are.

No.

I've got a couple points here and then maybe you can add to it or expand on what your

rationale was or methodology was.

I value entertainment value.

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