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

Welcome to the HockeyPedocast. My name is Dimitri Filipovich and joining me is my good buddy,

Shana Goldman. Janeh, what's going on? Hey, you know, enjoying the chaos of the playoffs, right?

That's right. Yeah. And I'm really enjoying this Devils Rangers series in particular and that's what

we're going to focus on here today. It's remarkable how much

can change in a week, right? Just like how significantly different the optics of this series are,

if we had done this after the first two games compared to the tone of the conversation we're

going to have now in the current situation with the devil's up three, two after a very commanding

performance and win at home in game five. You want to take the, you want to take the, you want to now in the current situation where the devil's up three, two after a very commanding performance

and win at home in game five. You want to take the, you want to take a game by game?

Because I think I've seen it lumped like games one and two just lumped together because

of the result. And then games three and four lumped together. And then game five, it's kind of

on its own. But I think there's an interesting story to tell sort of the progression of the series

throughout that.

And I think just because the results were the same in those blocks, maybe the way the

teams got there wasn't necessarily.

So I think it's kind of interesting just to tell the story of the series, kind of how

they went game by game.

So let's start with game one.

It was tough, right?

I think you could visibly see that the devils were nervous.

I generally like it's not, um, try to avoid the psychoanalysis and like getting into

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