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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast.

My name is Dimitra Filippovich, and joining me is, Thomas Drans. Tom. What's going on, man?

I'm excited. I'm excited for this week. I'm excited to have got a full weekend in without hockey, to be totally honest with you. I felt like I needed it.

Yeah. I feel like this gap is wetting my appetite pretty significantly for honestly,

like I think a Stanley Cup final series that we should be as hyped up for as anything

we've seen in the sport in 10 years.

I mean, including things like the Four Nations faceoff,

including, you know,

some of the biggest games that we've enjoyed

over the course of a playoff run that, you know,

when I look back and think about all the incredible games,

like that weekend where we got the Rantin and Nuke and the Jets come back.

I mean, it's been an incredible two months of hockey,

and yet this, to me, is the most exciting possible thing.

It feels like two teams that aren't just contenders.

These two teams feel weighty, like historic.

And clearly the best two teams in the sport.

You can't ask for more.

We've got McDavid.

We've got him leaving practice on Sunday scaring the bejes out of Oilers. He had a brunch they get to. Hey, respect. But, you know,

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