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

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good with Thomas Trans. Tom. What's going on, man. Let's go, man. Second day in a row with a show up. Very excited. Yes. What a blast. Yeah, this is going to be fun. If you missed yesterday's show somehow, we recapped the Western and Eastern Conference finals, how the Oilers and Panthers won their respective matchups.

We also told you how we're here in Palm Springs for the next couple weeks and we're just to be doing the show here full time.

So, uh, enjoy the strap in and enjoy the ride with us.

Um, here's a plan for today.

We've got the full week until the game start on Saturday, right?

And that gives us plenty of opportunity to have some fun with the previews.

We can do all sorts of deep dives, but I think we wanted to start in particular with kind of

X factors today.

You teased it at the end of yesterday's show.

You wanted to do a bit of a draft, and that's always fun content, right?

So we can kind of go back and forth.

I love it.

What's the criteria here is are we keeping it very open-ended because i think i think so we should try to like do it a bit deeper beyond

bark-off versus macdavid which i think every preview i've read so far is pretty much just

entirely based on that and deservedly so i mean it's going to be an unbelievable strength for strength

but yeah the point of the show is not to spend another 25 minutes gushing about Gus Forreisling.

Oh man. Well, there go all my notes.

So why don't we say, why don't we say no top line, no top pair? Okay. And throw in dry

sidle kitchak for good measure. Oh, man. Okay. Maybe we'll work those in at the end if we still have time.

Sure.

Because they're obviously not like X factors necessarily.

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