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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitri Philpovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Jesse Granger. Jesse, what's going on in?

Not much. Just getting ready for a cup final. It's been busy. And I will be flying to Raleigh in the morning. So just getting ready for it.

Yeah. We had you on, what, two weeks ago now uh ahead of the west final to

preview that and we focused on the vagus perspective certainly heading in because you cover the team

you're so familiar with them and i'd already done a lot of abs content in the lead up to that series

i really enjoyed that chat with you i think if you go back and listen to it it was pretty spot on

in terms of some of the stuff.

We identified, obviously, neither of us expected that result.

And I certainly did not expect to be having you back on this soon, previewing a Stanley Cup final the way we are today.

But that's the NHL playoffs for you.

So I want to start off talking about that West Final a little bit and reflecting on it, even though it feels like it ended forever ago now. Um, and kind of use some of the lessons from that to look ahead to the Stanley Cup final and talk about the series against the hurricanes. Where do you want to start the conversation on the West Final? Because I've certainly been focusing a lot on what we saw

from Vegas' defense, how they limited the Aves rush game and a lot of their scoring chances in

particular and frustrated them along the way. There were certainly some injuries that factored into that

on Colorado side, but I think a lot of the credit should go to what Vegas did

in terms of limiting their opportunities and really just making life help for them offensively.

Yeah, I think we can get into the specifics, but I'd like to start with just saying,

I think that there is a fundamental difference in the way the Golden Knights mental state is

compared to the Collard Abilange. And I know that it's tough to read into body language and

facial expressions and stuff like that, but I can tell you this, that I think the difference

in that series, more than anything else,

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