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

Welcome to the HockeyPedocast. My name's Dimitra Filip Filipovich and joining me is my good buddy, Daniel Nudgeon Bowman.

Daniel, what's going on, man?

Hey, Dimitri, nice to be on with you again.

It's kind of a weird time to be on with a big gap in this series,

but probably a good time to reset it too, right?

So I'm happy to come on and we'll,

I'm sure we got lots to talk about with this crazy series.

Yeah, on the one hand, I've really enjoyed all of the games and I look forward to it.

I've been waking up in the morning and checking the NHL schedule to check if King's Oilers is on.

In that given night, at the same time, though, it is nice to have this break just to reset a little bit to reevaluate to go back and look at some stuff and for us to talk about it right because it gives

this little breathing room here we can put this out people can listen get ready for the game six

on saturday night there's a there's a lot of fun stuff going on um so let's break down the the first five

games here and kind of look at it from all angles,

the good, the bad kind of stuff to consider what we've seen.

I think from my end, I'm curious if you feel this way, for all the talk about, you know,

the Oilers reliance or overreliance at times on this historically great power play.

And certainly in this series,

that hasn't changed, right? They have eight power play goals in like 20 minutes or so. I don't

know how many opportunities they've had, but just a ridiculous rate of conversion so far in the

series. The story for me is actually how they've handled the Kings at 5-15. Because the Because the Kings are a really good 5-1-5 team, particularly defensively.

They dominate volume generally.

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