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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy Thomas

Trans Tom. It's another Sunday special. What's going on, man. Man, what another great day of hockey.

These series are incredible. We're not getting any sweeps. That's pretty much fixed. It's been a

fun round one. We're going to get some long series, too, with the number of two-twos we got.

And, you know, even teams that have been pushed to the brink, you think about, like,

the Ottawa senators having dropped two and overtime and playing coinful of hockey to extend

their playoff lives.

And look, the capitals might have the 3-1 lead in that series, but the Habs have been game and, in fact, have carried play for large stretches and have been right there in all of these games, including on Sunday evening.

It's been a thrilling series despite sort of the habs being on the wrong end of some of the results.

As I said, it's a Sunday special, and it's good to be back.

We were recording this, as we said last time, from the sunny Palm Springs now.

It's not quite sunny outside right now because we're recording this late Sunday night.

We wanted to get this out after a fun weekend of hockey to the listeners so they could

start their week with some fun analysis, breaking all this stuff down. I thought it would be good for us to, you know, with all due respect to the Habs Cap series,

you mentioned in the game four we saw today on Sunday and some of the other Eastern

Conference matches we see.

And I wanted to focus on the four West series here today, at least off the top, just because

it feels like they've been especially tight, competitive.

They've really had the juice.

I said the number of two-two scores we've got going into game, pivotal game fives as

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