Basking in the Afterglow of the Hughes Bowl

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Thomas Drance to share their excitement about last night's Hughes Bowl in Vancouver while breaking down all of the exciting and potentially concerning stuff they saw from both teams involved. If you'd like to participate in the conversation and join the community we're building over on Discord, you can do so by signing up for the Hockey PDOcast's server here: https://discord.gg/a2QGRpJc84 This podcast is produced by Dominic Sramaty The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

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0:00.0	Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri
0:16.3	Filipovich.
0:20.0	Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitetra Filipovich and joining me here in studio with a smile on his face coming off of last night's extravagance at Rogers.
0:28.5	That's my good buddy, Tom's chance. Tom. What's going on, man? From ear to ear. I've never seen you walk into the studio here so happy. Usually you come in talking fantasy football. You walked in with a purpose
0:37.8	today saying, let's talk hockey. That was such a fun game. That was such a fun game. And, you know,
0:45.0	I went to the rink thinking like, okay, this is an interesting game. You know, you've got noted
0:50.1	Canucks Killer Tyler to Foley back in the house. You've got Curtis Lazars return to Vancouver.
0:54.5	Travis Green.
0:55.5	Yeah, those were the main talking points in last night's game.
0:57.3	And then the three Hughes brothers, it's like an interesting game.
0:59.6	But, you know, I was coming off watching, like, that Pacers Celtics game and sort of bemoaning the fact that the NHL doesn't have in-season stakes over the course of a long 82 game grind, especially from the perspective of a beat
1:12.1	writer. And instead, like, that was one of the best, that was the most entertaining game that I
1:19.5	saw live, that I've seen live this season by a lot, just like incredible action, incredible pace.
1:26.5	The devils are a warp speed hockey team.
1:31.0	And we'll get into it more.
1:32.2	But they don't really play or they don't really right now use that speed in the service of like a blanket defensive solidity like they did last season.
1:40.1	Especially in that Ranger series in round one where they kind of just suffocated them and we and we praised them for it.
1:45.0	It hasn't been a lot of that this year.
1:46.0	Well, and I think we saw a lot of it all season and then it showed up when it really mattered, like when their back was against the wall in that series.
1:53.2	And it felt like an arrival.
1:55.2	And to this point, they haven't got that part of their game going.
1:58.3	I don't think their goalies are helping them. Like, I think
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