Game 1 Takeaways From This Weekend's Playoff Games

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Thomas Drance to talk about the start of the postseason, and the big takeaways from this weekend's set of opening games.

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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.
0:18.8	Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast.
0:20.7	My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me in studio late on this Sunday evening for our Sunday special is my good buddy Thomas Trans Tom. What's going on, man.
0:28.4	Hey, buddy. Happy Easter to all you have the P.DO cast listeners that celebrate. The playoffs, more importantly, happy, happy playoffs.
0:37.2	Yeah, things that matter. To all to all the video cast listeners.
0:39.1	Yes.
0:39.7	What a treat.
0:40.8	Like, what a treat, especially that Winnipeg, St. Louis game that kicked this off.
0:45.2	There's something about that first game of playoff hockey, that first pure hit, the adrenaline
0:50.3	that comes with it.
0:51.2	And that game in particular was such a exceptional encapsulation
0:56.8	of like the stakes, the energy, the vibe in the crowd, uh, the visuals were fantastic. The game was
1:03.5	fast-paced, extremely physical, uh, had a good storyline throughout, got to a game state that
1:09.7	was fascinating watching the Jets,
1:11.8	just sort of pour it on for 30 minutes to try and dig themselves out of an early deficit.
1:18.2	Now, I'm curious to get your thoughts on this, but I did feel like after that, I was so amped.
1:24.8	Yep.
1:25.6	And then it took a long time for the games to ramp back up to where they did.
1:31.3	Like I felt like that Avalanche Stars game was like there was good moments to it.
1:38.2	There was some fun stuff to see.
1:40.6	Dallas definitely feels like a team that's got their sort of back up against the wall,
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