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 Dmitri Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy, Mike Kelly.

Mike, what's going on, man?

Not much.

Just getting here to the end of the first round, which is always crazy, but fun.

How you doing?

I'm doing well.

We're recording this on a Friday morning.

We are coming off a pair of close-out games on Thursday night. And so I wanted to have you on to do some autopsies on those round one matchups, how they played out, how they finished, and then kind of look ahead a little bit, at least preliminarily to what we can learn from them heading into round two.

Let's start with Stars Wild.

The Wild put the Stars away in Game 6 at home.

They wind up winning three straight after going down 2-1 earlier in the series,

make the second round for the first time since 2015. I think a lot of people are going to focus on the 5-on-5 splits,

specifically with the Wild outscoring, the stars 14 to 4 at 5 on 5 in this series.

I think that's fair because especially as you watch these games play out and I think game six was pretty representative of it.

I think the gap in terms of team speed between the two or maybe the way they play and the pace they play at was very evident. And then the Wilde's ability to move the puck

at just a much more efficient clip than the stars were able to. I thought those were two of the

biggest drivers for why that gap was so massive between the two sides. Yeah. I mean,

the five on five stuff was like a massive disparity.

Like you said,

Dallas,

they obviously got their goals on the power play and that was humming for them.

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