Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey P.D.O.cast with your host, Dmitri

Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast.

My name is Dimitra Filipovich and joining me for our Game 5 postgame show right after the conclusion of game 5 of the Stanley Cup final.

My good buddy, Thomas Trans, Tom.

What's going on, man?

Doing well.

An interesting one tonight in that, you know, we've seen the Panthers blow out the Oilers in the series, right? And we've seen them turn up and cause havoc on the forecheck in a way that the Oilers

haven't had answers for. But in truth, we've also seen the Oilers in full flight, generating

chances, getting looks, you know, holding their own.

Like these are two teams trading haymakers, right?

They, these teams both pose problems for the other that neither team has a good solution

for.

And, and most nights it sort of comes down to execution.

This was the first time where it looked like genuinely the Florida Panthers had a higher gear than the

Oilers. Like the Oilers might really be in trouble, even aside from the fact that they're one

game or one loss away from losing in the Stanley Cup final to the same foe for a second

consecutive year. And that said, you know, I don't want to overreact to it, right?

I think when we consider the first five minutes of this game and that McDavid chance

off the rush, the post that he hit in the second period, the post that the oilers hit

late, when we consider, too, you know, the depth advantage that the Panthers have.

And this is really one of my key qualifiers.

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