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

Welcome to the Hockey Pee-Ocast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich. And joining me is my good buddy, John Mattis. John, what's going on? Not a whole lot, although a lot is actually going on in Montreal for the four nations. And we're coming off a really memorable first game. Like, I know expectations were high because there hadn't been international hockey

in forever but I think it's safe to say that the opener between Canada and Sweden blew it out

of the water. It really did. It was an incredibly fun game and today we are going to do a deep dive

of our impressions, our takeaways, everything we saw, what we thought mattered, all that fun stuff from that

opener between Canada and Sweden on Wednesday night.

You were fortunate enough to be there.

You're a very old Boots on the Ground reporter for the PDO cast for this tournament.

You're doing this show live from a hotel room there in La Belle Provence.

And so I want to get into it.

I mean, it certainly seemed like, you know, I was sitting at home watching from the comfort of my couch,

but you could just see that the electricity in the building and the big game feel of the event

to kick off this tournament clearly resonated to everyone even through the screen for those that

weren't

there. But I imagine that the vibe at the rink itself and just being there was next level.

It was unbelievable. From start to finish, the Canadians are really good at, this is going to

sound weird, but like I pregame pageantry, that kind of of stuff like i know people roll their eyes sometimes

when they do it you know the torch passing and whatnot to start the season but i think it's like

it's pretty sharp it's pretty well planned pretty well produced and to have mario lumeau

to come out and the roar for him was like unbelievable i got goosebumps and from then on it was was, it was, it was really good. And even the

players like them mentioning that the, during warm up, it was full. Like, that's rare. You don't

see that at an NHL game. Something as simple as that. And obviously they had these, these special

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