Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockeyedocast. My name's Dimitra Lopovich and joining me is my good buddy David Castillo.

David, what's going on, man?

Doing well. Doing well. It's, I'm happy to keep you company since I'm not sure you would have had as much given the competitiveness or lack thereof through round one.

Yes. Well, that's exactly what we're going to do today.

We're going to talk about the most competitive round one series this postseason by quite a bit.

The Dallas Stars versus the biggest golden nights, we're going to break down the first five games,

everything we've seen, kind of how the series is shifted in momentum, fully unpack all that stuff.

I think the big opening question here for us

that we need to answer in trying to kind of figure out how this series has played out so far

is what happened between games two and really the start of game three, I guess, but let's say

between games two and game five, right? Because you left game two with the stars having lost both the first two

games at home. Vegas was going home with a two nothing lead. It felt like it was very sort of doom

and gloom and it was like, oh no, like we underrated Vegas. Everyone was way too high on Dallas

collectively. This is going down a very sinister road for this team.

And they came out with an unbelievable effort in game three, one that one that game in

overtime, of course, one games four, one game five.

And now all of a sudden they've sort of flipped this script entirely and about as

dramatically as you're going to see in a series like this.

And they have Vegas suddenly on the ropes for really the first time

they like they weren't at all last year so it's been a while since we've seen this team kind

of face this type of adversity so what's your take on kind of what Dallas did or maybe

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