Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri

Filipovich. Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Fopovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Jesse Marshall. Jesse, what's going on, man?

Enjoying the playoffs, Dimitri. A little sleepless nights with these overtimes for us east coasters, but it's well worth it in the end.

They've been phenomenal. The entertainment value of last nights, both game ones, the start off round two

were just fantastic games to watch. We're going to do our first playoff film club here,

and it's going to be very on brand. It's going to be niche. It's going to be something that

isn't necessarily the most glamorous part of hockey to talk about, certainly. But I think,

you and I were just talking before we went on air, it's probably the most glamorous part of hockey to talk about certainly, but I think you and I were just talking

before we went on air, it's probably the most important or kind of the uniting theme so far of the

first couple weeks of the 2023 postseason. It is forechecking and how to do it effectively,

how to create issues for your opponent and sort of cripple pretty much everything they want to do

themselves. And then maybe we can talk about potential sort of like workarounds or adjustments

or things, teams that are suffering against it can do to kind of make life a bit easier for

themselves and the game theory behind it. So we're going to have some part with that. I thought

it was perfect timing for us to do this today though because the two teams that won last night were the Crack and then the Panthers.

And you could make a very nice case that they're the two teams who embody this the best in terms

of leveraging that forecheck into creating easy looks and then extended offensive zone time

for themselves. And so it was very, I think,

fitting and good timing for us to get into it today. And I think the cool part is they don't

necessarily do it the exact same way, right? They're unique. Their themes are the same in that

they're going to throw the kitchen sink at you and try to disrupt you in what you're doing and destroy

your tempo, create turnovers, and kill your zone exits out of your defensive zone. But beyond

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