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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Jesse Marshall. Jesse, what's going on, man?

Good to be back. Nice to see you. Happy playoff season. Yes, happy playoff season. Indeed. So the plan for today is you and I are going to use this off day between, or extra off day, I should say, between games as the series shifts from

Winnipeg to Colorado to break down the first two games of Avs Jets, a series that has been

immensely eventful so far. And I think very satisfyingly also lived up to all the hype that I

had built up for it as like the first round matchup that I was really fascinated to watch play out tactically,

right? Because these were two teams that were obviously very successful this season,

but did so in not only different ways, but ways that could give each other big time trouble.

And we've sort of seen that throughout both of these games as they've sort of traded haymakers.

It's fitting that they split the two games and now they're heading to Colorado.

And I think the dynamics of the series certainly could shift quite a bit because of that

home ice now being in favor of Colorado.

But I want to get into it all with you.

So what kind of stuck out for you just watching these first two games, whether it's

something that reinforced your pre-existing beliefs on either

team or something that kind of caught you off guard and you weren't necessarily expecting.

How about a little of both?

I don't think anybody expected Winnipeg, Dimitri, to come in from an offensive perspective

and be able to successfully trade Haymakers with Colorado.

But I also think that like the story being Winnipeg is goaltending and Winnipeg's

team D is their identity was a little overblown.

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