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

Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name is Dimitri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Jack Hahn. Jack, what's going on in?

Well, a very high-scoring series. Lots of fun to watch. Maybe not so much if you're a fan of low-scoring, low-penal-lead totals hockey. but, you know, it's my gem.

As we should have expected from the Sabres, Canadians, of course, the plan for you and I today,

we're going to go through Hab Sabers game five from Thursday night with the Habs winning

6-3 to go up 3-2 in the series, get it to everything we saw from that game set up game six on Saturday

night in Montreal as well for the last round two series still going. It was certainly a bonkers

start to the game, right? The two teams traded five goals back and forth in about eight minutes worth

of game time. I also love, you know, I have you on quite often and you and I, I'd like to think,

are pretty thoughtful breaking down the game, looking at player usage, strategy, how teams are

trying to attack opposing goalies and defenses. And then you get a stretch like that where it all

essentially gets thrown out the window because the puck just starts chaotically bouncing in off people

and that's playoff hockey at its finest. So I don't know. What were your thoughts in not just on

that game, but how this series has sort of transpired because I don't think you and I have

gotten a chance to speak since the Canadians beat the lightning in seven. And we did a little bit of

a preview for the series, but now we have five games to work with.

So I like to just talk about something sort of a little bit off topic

for the first couple of minutes,

which is someone in my family, in my entourage,

works with a local convenience store chain in the Montreal area.

And what this chain has done is they've set up a,

basically a giveaway where after every single haps win,

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