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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedocast.

My name is Dmitri Filipovich, and joining me is my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom. What's going on, fella? Not much, man. Just how to fall on a hike. I'm icing my ankle at the moment. Rolled it a little bit. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. We'll play hard. It's that time of year. You know, everyone's heard at this time of year, right? Certainly.

Luckily, we've got some days off in between games here so you can rest up and be ready for game one.

Your day to day right now, though.

I think people are checking your practice reports, seeing if you're on there, seeing what's

going on.

But I think it'll be okay.

We're taking good care of you. I'm always day to day, so this is no departure.

So we're coming to you from Sunny Palm Springs here.

We're recording early morning on Thursday.

The birds are chirping outside.

Life is good.

We're having fun here.

We're going to keep the good times going.

So last time you and I chatted, we did part one of our Stanley Cup final preview. We sort of catered it around.

I think something that people who listen to the PDO guests have come to appreciate.

It's like the random little details and kind of like part-time players or role players that could play an outsized role in the series.

So we kind of highlighted them as X factors.

Today we're going to get to like the meat of it.

We're going to do all the good stuff. We're going to do the big head-to-head power-on-power matchups, everything you need to know to get you

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