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

Welcome to the Hockey Pediocast.

My name is Demetri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Kevin Woodley. Kevin, what's going on, man? We recovered from the opening game of the Colorado, Minnesota series. It is indeed hard to watch hockey from the fetal position. But I pulled it off. Didn't pull anything back. It's okay. We're all right. We survived. Yeah, that was a tough one for the goalie union, I imagine, what, 14 combined goals against for the two goalies, not counting the empty netter. And the coaches afterwards tried to defend them as much as they could. We're quick to point out that the rest of the series would not look that way. And I did think, you know, I had Harmon on yesterday and we did a Patreon show talking about this, but I did think they accomplished

that mission. Like it was especially a 5-1-5, much fewer risks being taken, odd man rushes against

more manageable situations, didn't necessarily go as well for Philip Gustafson in the wild as

I think they were hoping after making that switch. But overall I thought it was an entirely different game environment yeah no um the coaches defending the goalies post game after game one might have been the only defending that was going on in that one so it actually wasn't that bad but um hey man like you give elite players time and space and look what

happens give them a pre scout too and let them really sink their teeth into it because it's the

same team for potentially seven straight games versus you know Nashville on a Tuesday Columbus on a

Thursday where what city am i in i don't pay attention to it like they're going to pay attention

of those details.

And I thought, you know, Cadre talked about it after game one, tendencies and where they

were shooting and things like that.

It's a fascinating chess match.

And I imagine we see Walsett back in there for game three.

Everything I know of the young man and his personality and the swagger that he comes with

says that he will be ready for that.

Like he will be back up to the form we saw in the first round.

You know what the most amazing thing about that, Dimitri was?

He stays in for all eight and by clear side analytics numbers was still above expected for the

playoffs after game one i thought you were going to say for the game i was like that seems a bit

aggressive but also i believe it that was i think it was uh it was well over five i don't know if it was

quite five and a half but it was between five and five and a half a goal not having it in front of me

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