Previewing 6 of the 8 Round 1 Matchups in This Year's Playoffs

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Jack Han and Jack Fraser to preview 6 of the 8 Round 1 matchups in this year's playoffs. To help get you ready for the postseason before the games get going this weekend, we go through team strengths vs. weaknesses, key individual matchups, potential x-factors, and interesting stuff to watch for in each series. Here's the timestamp for everything we covered in this episode: 3:00 Sabres vs. Bruins 24:40 Lightning vs. Canadiens 36:36 Penguins vs. Flyers 48:00 Hurricanes vs. Senators 1:03:50 Stars vs. Wild 1:15:58 Golden Knights vs. Mammoth We'll be doing similar breakdowns of the final two Round 1 matchups we didn't get to here on the Patreon feed on Friday if you'd like to check those out there.

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0:00.0	Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri Filipovich.
0:19.4	Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name's Dimitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good
0:23.9	buddy Jack Hahn. Jack. What's going on, man? This is the most confusing show of the year.
0:29.2	It usually is because I have two people on, both named Jack. And we're going to try to navigate
0:36.0	that here over Zoom as we do today's
0:38.2	conversation but it's such a fun topic and show and it's an annual tradition for us so we're
0:43.8	going to power through it and also joining us is my other good buddy Jack Fraser other Jack
0:49.5	what's going on then uh not a lot uh this is my least confusing PDO cast of the year because Thomas Drance is too
0:56.5	busy. I'm sure watching Wilmer Skug clips to be joining us. So it should just be a smooth sailing for me.
1:03.7	He is. Yeah, last time we had you on the show, the three of us did our fake trades right before the
1:10.7	deadline.
1:11.6	And Trans had his infamous six-part trade involving the Blue Jackets, which was a banger.
1:18.9	And so it was even funnier in retrospect.
1:21.3	And even funnier in retrospect.
1:23.3	Here's a plan for today.
1:24.7	The 2026 playoffs kick off on Saturday.
1:47.0	And we're going to help you get ready for it. It's become, as I said, an annual tradition for us here on the PDO cast. The three of us get together. We preview all the round one matchups we've got on the docket. Now we're recording this on Thursday evening. We're still waiting for the Pacific Division to sort itself out, essentially, aside from the Golden Knights in the first seed. And so in the meantime, we're going to focus on the six series.
1:51.6	We do have locked in already. We're going to give ourselves about 10 to 12 minutes per series to go through all the most interesting angles for each one, team tendencies, strengths versus
1:56.1	weaknesses, key head to head, potential X factors, all that stuff that matters. I can't think of two better people to do this with than you two, considering how valuable the resources you put out there are with hockey tactics, 2026, which are going to be referenced in quite a bit. And then, of course, Jack Fraser's HockeyStats.com, which provides us with all the stats we're using today. It's going to give you everything you need to know.
2:17.9	So I highly recommend as listeners you check both those out.
2:21.7	We've done this.
2:22.5	I was reflecting.
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