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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Amitra Filipovic and joining me today's my good buddy John Mattis. John, what's going on, man?

Not a whole lot. Just back from Pat leave last week. So getting used to the old two-kid rotation. We've got man-on-man coverage at home. So doing that, the playoffs are in full swing.

I mean, it's a good time you hear, man.

That's good.

That's good.

No, it's very exciting to have you back.

Congratulations to you and your wife as well.

This is going to be fun.

So we took on off, it's a Monday show.

We're coming off a fun weekend of playoff hockey.

We're going to talk about some of the games we saw along the way, some of our big takeaways, kind of apply it moving forward to what it means.

And so I want to start with you about Leaves Bruins because obviously the Bruins win that game on Saturday to turn the series into a 3-1 lead heading back home with a chance to close it out.

And unsurprisingly, there's a lot of conversation about where things have gone wrong along the way for Toronto, how these games have played out.

And I'm not sure if you agree with this.

But for me, I don't think the outcome was necessarily shocking.

I picked Leafs in 7 just because I thought both these teams were incredibly close.

It was going to be a coin flip series.

And I just thought, you know what?

I think they're going to get over the hump against this Bruins team that I think is pretty limited in a variety of ways.

Now, all that being said, watching this Leafs team this season, you could say kind of the same stuff

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