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

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast.

My name is Demetra Filipovic and joining me as my good buddy Thomas Trans.

Tom, what's going on, man?

Well, I'm fired up.

Team Canada put a shalacking on the, on Chequia.

That's the, uh, that's the tough preliminary game for Canada out of the way,

uh, commanding 5-0 Canadian victory.

And how can you not be romantic about that?

I mean, very first shift, Crosby line over the ice or over the bench on the ice,

generate a couple high-quality looks.

There's a loose puck in the slot that they're fighting for, you know, playing

with Taves and McCar who are buzzing around up high. Right away, it was a statement shift from that

line. Then you have McKinnon on. You see that speed, but pushing the Czech defenders back. And,

you know, Philip Ronik and Radco Gutis aside, there's no NHLers on that check defense,

even though there are guys who've played NHL games and are still good players.

That mattered.

You could tell that that was going to be a thing.

And then the McDavid line, and McDavid just throws that massive hit right off the hop.

And, you know, Canada opened this tournament in guerrilla mode.

There was no moment in which they

weren't just playing a very impressive brand of contemporary hockey at the absolute highest level

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