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

Welcome to the HockeyPedioCast. My name is Dmitri Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, Corey Schneider. Corey, what's going on in?

Not much. Just reviewing the game from last night, seeing some things that I might have missed watching it live while parenting at the same time. So that was a real fun night at my house following that comeback along.

It certainly was.

So the plan for today, you and I are going to go through everything we saw in game two,

the Stanley Cup final on Thursday evening,

breaking down some of the adjustments from game one, maybe, general trends,

and then look ahead a little bit to Saturday nights.

Game three, what a start to the series.

This has been, I know kind of the public sentiment has been relatively lukewarm on this one

after the avalanche got swept.

The HAB's losing the way they did in the East Final.

I think these two teams didn't generate a lot of excitement necessarily from unbiased parties

and from just kind of casual observers.

But these first two games have been excellent, obviously from a drama and entertain

respective to one-goal games that were decided late.

We had multi-goal deficits erased, huge momentum swings, stylistic differences between the two

teams for nerds like you and I to really sink our teeth into eight goals in the two third

periods and the overtime in game two.

I think just as importantly, it feels like I don't know if you agree with this,

there was one sequence maybe in the second period of game two late,

where it was a bit of those post-wistle scrum and the players were getting after,

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