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

Welcome to the Hockeypedio cast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me here in studio,

fresh off of game one of the Stanley Cup final, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on,

man?

An overtime thriller.

Yeah, it seems like whenever you and I get together in the studio are here to watch one of these

playoff games retreated with a classic, and usually an overtime at that.

I don't know if it's that I enjoy doing these or that I enjoy watching games in the studio.

I hope you enjoy doing these.

Or that I enjoy hanging out with you so much.

But I feel like we've been treated to an exceptional seven, eight months of hockey.

Like, dating back to the Four Nations face off, I genuinely feel thrilled watching most of these games. Like it's a thrilling

feeling. I'm so amped up throughout the game. You know, there were some things that I didn't

love about this one, the work of the lines people in particular, frustrated me on occasion.

Later on, I'm going to clear out for you and just let you cook on the lines. You brought that up like

14 times during the game.

It was a little distracting.

I thought the flow of the first period was interrupted by a little bit of a ref show.

But also we got huge emotional swings in the first period.

Then you got that huge Panthers push in the second, then you had the Oilers really figuring it out in the third period, just a little bit, beginning to break the Panthers

forecheck with a little bit more regularity, gusto, aggression, beginning to use the middle of the

ice a little bit more on breakouts, which I think was essential. And I thought the Bouchard chance in

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