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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Ditra Filipovich and joining me in studio, my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Fired up to be with you here today. I mean, the round robin of the Olympics. Look, I know there's some

sort of sniping at what the tournament looks like from from various people i love this tournament

from whom well like mostly certainly none of our listeners mostly like canadian political

commentators are like oh wow canada versus france it's like yeah i mean it was a once-in-a-generation

opportunity to see canada go full-tilt at a minnow team with one of the most

loaded groups of forwards we've ever seen. And yet every time France, despite how undermatch

they were from a talent perspective, every time they entered the offensive zone, I was like,

uh-oh. Is there something there? I mean, there was a little bit feeling that, certainly. I mean,

ultimately, the consequences of it are very limited because you feel like regardless of what happens at that end of the ice in a matchup like that, Canada is going to be able to come back down and put up an even more crooked number on the board, and it wasn't necessarily up for debate in that game. No. But as we progress later into this tournament, I'm sure we're going to talk about looking ahead

into the qualifying round.

Canada's goal-tending decisions?

Yeah.

The, yeah, so I thought though, like, obviously they got smashed against Finland, but we

saw some heart out of Italy.

I thought we saw some heart out of Denmark.

I thought some of the, you know, quote

unquote, non-traditional hockey powers acquitted themselves pretty well. I think the floor is a lot

higher. You know, like one guy that stands out to me at this tournament is Lauridson for Denmark,

a former Philadelphia Flyers heavy. And that would be the first player that you mentioned on today's show.

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