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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me as my good buddy Emily

Kaplan. Emily, what's going on? Not much, Dmitri. You're going to have to excuse my voice. Usually I get

the case of the first round sniffles because of all my travel and this year came a little early.

I'm going to call this the Alex Leveskin sniffles because I was chasing the big man around the country the last couple weeks.

So I'm battling through, but I'm always happy to chat with you.

Well, it's always a blast to get you on.

It's been way too long since we caught up.

I had to drag you.

I know you're very busy with your TV broadcast commitments, but I had to drag you into the show

and get into some of the stuff with you especially you know i mentioned the canes there you were at the hurricanes capitals game last night and i wanted to start off

talking about that and kind of running through some of the interesting notes obviously i think

there was a lot of intrigue heading into that game because it was the rematch from last week's

brawl-filled meeting between the two. It's also a potential round

two meeting between the hurricanes and the capitals. I thought, I'm curious for your take on this,

I thought it was an impressive in-game bounce back from the capitals in that one because they got

absolutely steamrolled in the first period. The shots were 15 to 5 for Carolina. It felt even more

lopsided and watching it in real time.

And maybe it was, you know, it would have happened anyways because of the scheduling, right?

Like the capitals have been off since Ovechkin's record breaking game on Sunday.

I'm sure they partook in some celebrating in the meantime.

Then they had this 20 minute ceremony before the game unveiling this Ovechkin sculpture,

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