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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Demetri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Harmon Dyal. Harmon, what's going on, man?

Another much. Just excited to wrap up another week by having a conversation with you on the pod.

Yeah, it's a Friday. And we've got Harmon, as usual, to break down Thursday evenings, most interesting games.

The stuff we saw while watching those games last night, it was a nice privilege for us

because I usually feel like with the way the NHL schedule is formatted on a weekly basis,

these Thursdays can get a little hectic where they jamming like 12, 13, 14 games and

we're trying to keep up with it.

And it becomes a bit of a mess. This week we got nine. And it was one filled with some really fun matchups, some East-West ones in particular. And so we're going to be able to break all that stuff down and get into all of our main observations. I think we've got to start with duck stars. And the reason I say that I've spoken a lot about the stars, so we're not

going to focus on them too much here. But this Anaheim team right now and what they're doing

is probably the most exciting story in hockey. Just watching Ducks games right now, it feels like

there's nothing like it. They're just cooking with pure gas. It's all offense at both ends of the ice.

It's so fun to watch. We did our watchability rankings a couple weeks ago. I had them

confidently in my top 10. I feel like if I redid it now a couple weeks later, they'd be in the top

five because it's been that entertaining. And it's not just that they're scoring a lot of goals.

They're winning games too, right? They've won five in a row now against a pretty good slate of competition. They've beaten the Panthers twice. They beat the devils, the stars here, the Red Wings as well. They're sitting atop the Pacific division. We can talk more about the substance to this and the outlook for the rest of the season in the West, but I wanted to kind of just break down what we're seeing from them right now, stylistically and tactically and how they're getting these results out of all these young players, because it's everything we dream for last year when we were kind of drudging through those great cronin games, and everyone essentially has just been unleashed here, put a jetpack to their back,

and they've taken off.

And so what are you seeing from them right now in terms of how they're, how they've

become the most prolific offense in the league through the first month?

Yeah.

The biggest thing that stands out to me is just how deadly their transition game is.

Every game I watch them, their ability to transport pox up the ice as a five-man

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