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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, David Castillo. David, what's going on, man?

It's, listen, I'm doing well. Nobody has thrown me under a bus. And so what more could I ask for?

Yeah, no tire marks on you yet. We got 50 minutes here to see what we can do with that.

What are we going to talk about today? The Oilers closed out the stars in game five on Thursday evening.

They won the final four games of the West Final to stamp their return ticket to the Stanley Cup final and meet the Florida Panthers again.

I'm going to save the looking ahead and doing the Stanley Cup final

preview for the next show to come because I'm having our pal Jack Han on. I'm going to break

everything down there. Instead, today, you and I are going to sort through what we saw in game five

for that West Final, kind of how the Oilers won the series, where it went wrong for the stars,

all of our takeaways from the series that only lasted five games,

yet I feel like so much was jammed into it, especially compared to the East Final, that

it's going to be a fun show here today.

Let's start off with this.

It was certainly a complete and utter meltdown by the stars, I thought, on home ice.

Given the circumstances in the first eight minutes of the game, you expect a team down

3-1

at home that had shown signs of life in games, three and certainly at the start of game

four to build on that, kind of throw everything with the kitchen sink at the Oilers and see

what comes of it.

And instead, it resulted in this truly bizarre sequence in the first seven or eight minutes

that culminated in Pete DeBer pulling, Jake O'Doninger.

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