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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filippovich, and joining me as my good buddy, Daryl, Daryl. What's going on, man?

Ah, not much. Just excited to be back here and looking forward to this next round.

We are so back. It's been a while since you and I have gotten to do this. The last time we did was right at the end of the regular season. First couple rounds of the playoffs took up all our attention here, certainly.

But now that we're getting into the conference final, as I was saying to you before we went on

the air, one game per night, much more manageable workload for us.

We can do fun projects like this.

And yesterday I did my conference finals preview here in the PDO cast.

And at the end of it, I promised the listeners a special treat today.

And I think, you know, maybe I'm a little bit biased, but I do think this qualifies you and I getting together, getting to geek out about Wyatt Johnson for the next 50 minutes.

And I think this is going to be a really fun show.

He certainly, you know, not come out of nowhere because even as a rookie

last year, he made a big impact. And then anyone who watched the stars this regular season got

to appreciate his game. But he certainly ratchet up to an entirely different level this postseason

distinguished himself as a true marquee player. And I want to get into it all with you because

I've talked about him a bunch on the PDO

cast here during this postseason.

Yet every time I talk about him, I can drop all of these stats about him.

I can quantify how good he's been.

It's much more difficult and elusive for me to describe it, though, because I just, he's always open. And I'm so fascinated by that

concept of how a star player like that can consistently get himself into these high danger areas.

No one in this industry is more qualified and better equipped to articulate some of those

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