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 Filipovic and joining me to start a fresh week of shows here.

It's my good buddy, John Mattis. John, what's going on, man?

Not a whole lot, Dimitri. Fired up to do yet another episode of the PDO cast. I really do enjoy coming on in here.

Yes, this is going to be a fun one. We've got a fun list of topics that we're going to run through today.

And let's start with the first one on our list, which is the Nashville Predators, the hottest team in the NHL.

Since that embarrassing loss, which was a 9-2 defeat, I believe, to the stars, where they were getting out shot like 20 to 1 or something at one point

in that game. And of course, the coaching staff telling the team they weren't allowed to go see

you two. They are 12-0-2 with a 57 to 27 goal differential in that time. They've realistically

not only locked up a playoff spot essentially for themselves, played their way into the first

wildcard

slot at that, which obviously has a fascinating trickle-down effect of potentially bumping Vegas

into Wild Guard 2 and having them be the prize, quote unquote, for whoever wins the West.

But there's a lot of time, Pack here.

We've obviously talked a lot about the Predators on this show in particular of the season

because I've been fascinated with this sort of science experiment they almost had in the off

season where Barry Trots took over, really wanted to change the culture of this team.

They made a coaching change.

They brought in a bunch of free agents.

They really tried to change things up.

And now we're seeing that actually happened on the ice and it's been really fun

to watch and they're doing it in such a distinct way and so I just wanted to talk about them

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