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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Thomas Strands. Tom, what's going on, man?

Not much, buddy. You've been a, been a awesome week of hockey, I feel. Like, especially, I say that almost every week. But this week in particular, I thought it was scintillating, especially if you're watching the playoff race storyline in the West.

Yes, certainly.

And we're going to get into all that today.

I wanted to start off, and by the way, we were apart last week.

It felt like I was in Hawaii, but it felt like my life was missing something.

And I'm sure the listeners felt the same way.

I know they'd have expressed that in the Discord that they can't wait for us to be back together.

And we're back here for another Sunday special.

I wanted to start off today getting into that Western Conference, Wild Card Race with

you in particular through the lens of what we're seeing from the St. Louis Blues, because I know

you and I both very closely, it was a bit of an island game on Saturday afternoon.

There was nothing else to really watch. We were both dialed into it, watched it from start to finish.

And they went into Colorado and answered a few questions for me,

because I know they've been playing remarkably well pretty much since Jim Montgomery

took over, but especially since the Four Nations where they're 15, 2,

and 2 now ripping off this remarkably hot stretch.

I think their outscoring team is 74 to 40 in that span.

They extended the win streak to nine games, but a lot of it was kind of...

Against Nashville.

With an asterisk of like, well, they just played a three-game series against the

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