Golden Knights Defensive System, Eichel's Impact, and a "Normal" Season in Vegas

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4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Jesse Granger to talk about what's been a shockingly "normal" season in Vegas, the defensive playing style Bruce Cassidy has them executing, Jack Eichel's campaign being deserving of both Hart and Selke votes, potential matchups for them in Round 1, and what could be in store this summer after a quiet trade deadline.

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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 Hockey PEDEOCast.
0:20.5	My name is Detri Filipovich.
0:21.6	And joining me to close out the week is my good buddy, Jesse Granger.
0:25.1	Jesse, what's coming?
0:26.9	Not much. How are you?
0:28.6	I'm good. I'm excited.
0:29.7	I think this is the first time I've had you on this year.
0:31.8	It's been a while since we chatted, a lot to catch up on about the Golden Knights.
0:35.9	I'm particularly interested in talking about
0:38.6	this over the past couple weeks. I don't know if you agree, but especially compared to their historical
0:43.1	track record of all the drama with LTIR usage, a couple of years trying to scrape into the playoffs
0:51.3	at the end, big trades of the deadline.
0:59.8	This year has been, for a lack of a better term, shockingly normal by Golden Knights standards, right?
1:01.0	Like, they're just kind of humming along.
1:02.8	We've spent so much time focusing on the other components of the West, whether it's
1:07.0	the top three teams in the central battling it out, an Oilers Kings matchup again,
1:11.5	the Oilers struggles and injuries,
1:13.8	the Blues Heater,
1:15.1	the wildcard race in the West,
1:17.0	everyone's kind of duking it out for our attention
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