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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good

buddy Harmon Dyle. Harmon, what's going on, man? Doing well. I'm buzzing from all the awesome

playoff hockey last night. It was a fun Tuesday night, not quite as as chaotic and dramatic as

Monday nights games certainly were, especially down the stretch,

but we've got some fun stuff to get into.

And I think most importantly, I want to start off with this and we're going to spend as much

time as we can on it.

We finally got the Battle of Florida, Panthers Lightning, underway on Tuesday after this

extended break and, you know, highly anticipated weight for us.

And I'm curious for your take on this because you and I haven't necessarily had a

chance to speak since these matchups got set and since all the playoff previews

happened and everything.

But from my perspective heading into the series, I noticed that Tampa Bay had certainly

emerged as a very trendy pick to come out of the

east and d-throw in the Panthers. I certainly saw the logic. We presented it in our series preview

that we did last week where there's any number of dominant regular season metrics you want to look at

either offensively or defensively that you can pick through and construct a very compelling case

for why the lightning are a very,

very good team this season. And yet still, while talking my way through it, I still had my

reservations in terms of making that pick. And I ultimately did pick the Panthers to win a long

series just because I believe that there's an absolute Titan kind of laying in the weeds here

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