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

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dimitri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Shana Goldman. Shane, what's going on?

Hey, thanks for having me. first period was rollicking. There's so much to unpack there. I thought, I'm curious for

a take on this. Coming out of game three, I did a show with Drance on Sunday night. The biggest

storyline for me to watch coming out of that game was what we'd seen Bruce Cassidy and the

Golden Knights do offensively to adjust from the start of the series, particularly in the neutral zone,

right? They acknowledged what a nightmare trying to wrangle McDavid and Dreisaitle was at 5-1-5.

The Oilers were running wild off the rush.

And so they shifted to kind of this 1-1-3 in the neutral zone to force more dump-ins from the Oilers,

hopefully slow up those entries a little bit.

And that made sense because you look at the goal distribution in those first three games for all the offensive zone possession time, the Oilers had had in game one,

nine of the 12 goals they scored in the first three games came off the rush. And so I think that was

the logic there. And I think this is what makes the NHL playoffs so fun because we saw Chris

Knoblock adjust to that adjustment heading into game four by completely

mixing up all four of his forward lines despite the fact that in their non-McDavid-Drysidal

minutes this postseason, Doylers had done remarkably well with those three lines after that.

He put them all in the blender.

He brought in Casperi-Cappan into the lineup.

And I think you could see it immediately

paid evidence, right? I think, was it a minute and a half in, they score a goal off of a forecheck

with Henrique Alfront. They score another one off of a nice four check play later on in the first

period. And so I love that component to these playoffs, the in-series adjustments from both sides,

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