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

Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockey Pediocast. My name is Dmitra Filippovich and joining me for a second Sunday special this week because we're peaking at the right time of the season is my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on in?

No much, buddy. Thanks for having me.

Second straight show of the day and one that's a little bit more focused on the good stuff.

The fun stuff, yes. We eulogized all the teams who were eliminated

in part one. Now it is time for us to get into the playoff spirit, because this is the last time

the two of us will get the chat on here before the playoffs kickoff on Saturday. And so I thought

it would be fun as like an initial foray into playoff previews for us to go through all the

playoff teams, talk about the players on each one we're most interested in heading into the postseason.

We're going to provide our rationale for doing so.

Hopefully not just do like every team's best player because that's obvious.

Guys you could have the most outsized impact, maybe the most approved, most on the line for some of them contractually as well.

So it'll be a fun one.

Do you want to do this as kind of a draft, like going back and forth,

and then you can go first, you can pick the team and the player,

then I'll go next and do it like that as opposed to just like doing it conventionally in order.

You're the guest.

I'll let you go first.

Let's go snake draft.

All right.

So if I'm picking first, you get second and third.

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