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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.

My name is Dmitra Filippovich and joining me for another edition of the Sunday specials, my good buddy Thomas Jans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Not much, buddy. Interesting week of hockey, I thought, across the board. Really feels like these sort of wild card races in both conferences are beginning to take real shape in terms of teams like the senators, you know, taking real control.

I'd say you'd probably say the same about the Canucks, although we're recording this before they play the Utah Hockey Club on Sunday.

But at this point, given Utah sort of falling short on Thursday, the Canucks taking care of business, falling short in Seattle on Friday, excuse me, the Canucks taking care of business both with a comeback win against the flames and with a really easy victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night, you know, it feels like they're pretty firmly in

control to the point where, and again, you'll be listening to this after the results are in on

Sunday night, but if Utah doesn't win that game, it feels like curtains for them at this point.

And yet, you know, for the Canucks, they can kind of afford to lose it now.

They're kind of in the position that the flames were on Wednesday, which shows you how quickly this flips.

It's going to be fun to track it right to the end.

Yeah, we're going to talk more about the senators later.

I got them in my topic rundown.

Yeah, let's go.

As you said, we originally told the listeners we're going to wait to record until later in the evening so that we could talk about a couple of the big games in the NHL schedule this Sunday, including that Canucks Utah game, also stars abs, but because

of some other plans, we're actually doing this in the morning, so we're not going to get into either

of those. I'll circle back on tomorrow's show and cover them at more length.

Sorry, buddy. That's fine, because we've got a lot of other fun stuff that we saw across the league

this weekend, as you mentioned.

And I wanted to start off with another game we saw on Friday evening.

And that was atop the Central, right?

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