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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEO cast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich. And joining me as my good buddy, Harmon Dyle, Harman was coming.

Nothing much. Just excited for game seven between Leaves and Panthers after watching that game last night.

Yeah, it was a fun game six. We're going to break it all down today and look ahead.'s game seven. We're recording this early Saturday morning. I had a chance to watch the last night,

rewatched it again, got a ton of notes. We're going to get through to kind of tee it all up.

I want to start with this. I think people listening are probably going to be like, all right,

well, they're going to start with Matthews finally breaking through and scoring the biggest goal of his career. And we're certainly going to get to that.

That was a big story here.

But I want to start off with what I thought was the prevailing theme from this one.

And it was the Leafs bounce back effort, especially defensively.

Let me read you a couple of stats here and then we can jump into it that i think paint a pretty clear picture of how this game was played so shot attempts all told by the end were 81 to 42 for florida

shots on goal were 22 to 17 blocked shots were 31 to 10 for toronto and i think most importantly

tying that all together the panthers wound up according to Mike Kelly from Sport Logic, with just three shots on

goal from the slot area in this game, which marked the lowest total by any team in a

playoff game this year.

And I think, you know, this Leafs defense certainly has some legitimate limitations that

explain at least part, I think, of why the forwards for them

are struggling to create offense at the other end. But man, this was one hell of a locked in

effort by them to erase pretty much anything the Panthers tried to do in the offensive zone,

especially after this Panthers team put up six goals in the previous game.

And I wanted to start off with that because I just thought it was almost an immaculate defensive effort that I imagine,

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