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

Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockeyedio cast. My name is Dmitriri Filipovich and joining me for our final postgame of the 2025 NHL playoffs, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, it's been quite a journey to get to this point. We've finally reached the finish line. How's it going, man?

Yeah, I've anoint a new potential dynasty in the Florida Panthers, now back-to-back champions.

They need to do another one before they're more than back-to-back champions, right?

This is an incredible title defense, three consecutive finals.

I mean, this team is a monster, an absolute monster right on the fringes of the swamp in South Florida.

Very cool to see them win again.

And to do so in such dominant, dominant, that is a decent way to describe how the Panthers play,

but such a dominant fashion, right?

I mean, this series turned.

The first two games were such Titanic clashes.

And then that Oilers comeback in game four kind of obscures maybe the extent to which

as this series went on, the Panthers felt like they solved another elite team.

Right.

And, you know, the way that they just, I mean,

I never thought anyone could make the McDavid dry-sidal oilers look like the 2024 New York Rangers in the

conference final, right? I mean, they made them look like a team with absolutely zero answers, no levers that No Blok could

pull, point shot after point shot, zero scoring chances, very limited threat. And, you know,

that thread was consistent from, you know, the first period of game five through to the end of the game tonight.

You know, even the Oilers start, they started on a mission, some big hits, some good pressure.

And that Sam Reinhart play to create the first goal, you know, shades to the hero of game seven coming through again to sort of

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