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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich and joining me. He's my good buddy Kevin Woodley. Kevin, what's going on, man?

I mean, the hockey season's going on. That's right. It's been a while since we connected. It's nice to be back with you.

Looking forward to this being the first of hopefully many. And while you're going to hear me say things like tiny sample size a lot today.

It's exciting just to be sort of watching these guys play again and trying to see what

narratives are true and what sort is backed up by the numbers and what's not.

And watching for adjustments league-wide,

and looking at all the numbers league-wide,

first column of the year was on the decline of say percentage

in the National Hockey League,

and I actually had a goalie come up to me.

Actually, I won't say when, because then it would tell you who it is,

but thanking me for shedding some light in my first column

on an NHEL.com about how like, you know, if we, we've seen

things like, oh, this goal is coming off the worst say percentage of his career. Right. And they're like,

yeah, but say percentage in general is down to the point where if you look at my numbers compared

to a couple of years ago, like it's the same. Right. It's just just so yeah we get a new environment and all that kind of stuff it's been fun i'm glad to be how do you view the early season stuff because obviously it'll be

very dependent especially on if the team has that sort of continuity right if there's a bunch of new

moving parts whether it's a new goalie or new system they're trying to implement or obviously new

defensemen in particular there might be a bit of a learning period right and you might

see them trying to iron it out on the fly whereas if it's a team like we're going to talk about the Bruins

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