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

Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy, AJ Hockey P.D.O.cast. My name is Amitra

Filipovic and joining me is my good buddy, AJ Hayfley. AJ, what's going on then?

Oh, you know, just living the, live in the dream.

That's right. Watching playoff hockey, getting to talk about it.

I got up this morning, made myself a coffee, put on the, the abs cracking game to rewatch it.

So it would be fresh in my mind.

It's like I could take some notes because I knew we were going to do the show today.

And I've certainly got some takes.

I, you know, this is my first time, um, experiencing postseason hockey while having a daily show.

Uh, in the past I used to just, you know, pretty much I do a preview.

And then unless something extremely notable happened mid-series, I would just wait until the

series was over. And then I'd kind of recap it and preview what was next. And that gave me the

benefit of seeing how the story plays out and then being able to react accordingly, right?

I really dislike the idea of jumping right after game one and firing up the hot take machine and panicking and being overly dramatic just because it's the only thing we've seen so far because we know that as these series go along, there's twist and turns, there's adjustments, there's matchup changes, there's evolutions, all that good stuff.

And we have to that to look forward to.

But one of the perks of having a daily

show is that we can react to stuff while it's kind of fresh on the mind while we just watched

this game most recently last night. And so we're going to talk abscracking here today. You and I are

going to deep dive it, do a breakdown of what we saw, what we think matters, what we think

doesn't, how we think it's going to progress as the series goes along. What was your first thought from watching this game in terms of how it played out,

whether it was confirming a preexisting belief or whether it was kind of surprising you because you didn't anticipate it going that way?

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