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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey-Ocast.

My name is Dimitra Filipovich, and joining me as my good buddy, Steve Peters.

Pidi, what's going on, man?

You know, it's fun trying to, the way too early predictions on this season, like the ebbs and flows of, oh, our team is terrible, too.

We're winning the cup in a matter of 24 hours.

This first 10 days has been a lot

of fun all it takes is one game the most recent game and if it goes well all of a sudden you're

back on track if you're struggling then the sky is falling but that's what's really fun about

the start of the regular season and i think uh you know we're going to go through Wednesday nights

late there were four games on the schedule,

watch them all, kind of our main takeaways from them stuff we noticed on tape. If we have time

at the end, we're going to go through a couple of random slash niche names. I gave you a little bit

of homework that have popped up time and time again when we've been watching these games throughout the first week or so of the season. But the Sabres, who are going to start with, the Sabre Senators game from Wednesday, are the best example of what you're referencing there off the top, right? Where they drop their first three games by a 10-2 margin, and those games were ugly in every sense. Now, on the one hand, there's the caveat that they're

dealing with a bunch of key absences. They're starting goalie still hasn't played. Uh,

Ukopeca Lukanen, Josh Norris gets hurt in the first game, Michael Kesselring, their big

offseason additions still has yet to suit up. And Zach Benson, who I was incredibly high on and was

one of my flag plant players for

this season and missed the first three games. Now, I want to start with Benson because he made his

season debut on Wednesday night and it was this gruesome injury, right? He takes a puck to the face.

He winds up being hospitalized, the scary situation. He misses the first three games.

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