Game 1 Takeaways From This Weekend and Initial Impressions of Every 1st Round Series We've Seen So Far

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Thomas Drance to go through our initial impressions of every Game 1 that we watched this weekend.

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0:00.0	Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri
0:16.3	Filipovich.
0:19.9	Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast.
0:21.6	My name is Demetri Fulipovich, and joining me is my good buddy Thomas Trance.
0:25.2	Tom, what's going on, man?
0:26.5	Well, I'm doing very well because we got, look, I've watched 10 hours of hockey the last day.
0:34.4	I mean, just today.
0:35.2	I watched about 10 hours of hockey.
0:36.7	And then yesterday, I did
0:38.2	something pretty similar checking in about halfway. Like, I clocked in halfway through that
0:43.0	Senator's Ottawa game. And I didn't feel like I missed that much, to be totally honest with you
0:47.3	from the first half. The Senator's Ottawa game. I did feel at times like the Senators were
0:51.4	playing against themselves. You know what? It felt a little 19, or not 1990s, but it felt a little like early
1:00.6	aughts, you know, NHL.
1:03.8	And I felt like Kings Blues.
1:05.8	It felt like those Kings Blues series.
1:07.6	With maybe a little bit less of an Irish rugby component.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:11.8	Yeah, a little more rush juice.
1:13.4	Yeah, a little bit more rush juice.
1:14.6	Oh, way more rush juice, especially from the hurricanes and from Jake Sanderson too.
1:19.8	I mean, I thought Jake Sanderson had an awesome game despite Ottawa's inability to manufacture
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