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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.

My name is Dimitri Filipovich, and joining me is my good

buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, we're not in studio, although I guess we're in a little bit of a makeshift

studio of our own ears in Palm Springs. What's going on, man? Not much, buddy. It's been an

interesting week of hockey at first week of the playoffs. I would say electric. Honestly, we've got

fights on the bench. We've got heinous coaching challenges.

And we've had a handful of games early on.

It felt like it took a few games for the playoffs to settle in,

other than Jets' Blues, which was incredible,

an absolute brawl right off the hop.

Some mid-January feel to some of the early

games as these series sort of, you know, I think had a feeling out process, but now every night

these games are incredible. They're incredible, and that's why it's a luxury for us, though

we've got the next 100 minutes or so here to get

into everything we've been seeing in these round one playoff games with the past couple days,

the storylines, the matchups we found most interesting, all that good stuff, some big picture

kind of theory stuff that we've seen as well coming out of these games to think about.

So it's going to be a fun show for us as we as we get into the Palm Springs series here too.

As I said, I think the listeners are really excited about it. We've been watching these games

from the comfort of your couch. We've been hanging out poolside. We've been indulging in some

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