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

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast. My name is Dmitra Philipovich and joining me here in studio for our Sunday special reunited after a week apart. Having to do this show remotely is my good buddy, Thomas Trans, Tom. What's going on, man? Oh, man. Well, been a nice to take a week off during hockey season and also get that same sort of whiplash feeling that you get when you go from

regular season to playoff hockey, you know, but you're ready for it when that happens.

I don't think people were ready for what this tournament was going to look like, how high the

pace was going to be, how different it would feel from game 58 of the regular season in Nashville, right?

Like in Columbus, in Vancouver, in Winnipeg.

This felt totally different.

Magnitudes greater in terms of passion level, intensity, speed, skill level, frankly, of these four teams.

It's been nothing short of thrilling.

And kind of climaxing in that Saturday night game between Team USA and Canada,

which were obviously going to spend the majority, if not the entirety of today's show,

with all due respect to the game that came before that, Finland, Sweden,

which was obviously a really fun, competitive one, Finland won in overtime.

But what a showcase this was for the NHL, right?

On this big stage, it's a Saturday night stealing the entirety of the spotlight from NBA

All-Star Weekend, especially comparing it to maybe previous seasons, even last

year in particular, and kind of how apathetic everyone was about the state of the NHL All-Star

weekend and the skills competition and no one really caring or showing any interest or actually

trying.

And then we flash forward to this.

Everyone's watching.

Anyone that tuned in got to see the very best playing at such a high competitive level,

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