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The Hockey PDOcast

Vasilevskiy’s Return to Form, and Hot Goalies Heading into Playoffs

The Hockey PDOcast

Sportsnet

Sportsnet, Sports, Nhl, Hockey

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Kevin Woodley to breakdown Andrei Vasilevskiy’s return to form this season, the most difficult types of shots for goalies to face and the science behind them, and hot netminders that could steal series for their teams this postseason.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:16.3

Filipovich.

0:19.3

Welcome to the Hockey PEOCast. My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me here in studio, my good buddy Kevin Woodley. Kevin, what's going on in?

0:26.9

Not much. Not much. Nice to be back in the studio. You're in a bit of a quiet mood today. I mean, usually you come in and then I pride myself on working you up over the next 50 minutes, but I feel like my work's cut out for me today. No, I'll be good. I'll be good. I'll bounce back. Just a, you know, first morning back at the

0:41.2

rink after the team had been away for a couple of weeks. So, you know, that whole half to go back

0:45.3

to work thing can get a little frustrating sometimes. Yeah. Well, this is not work. We've got it. This is the good stuff. You know what, though? We have lofty standards to hit today because last time I had you on, and we have you on about once a month or so.

0:59.2

The March episode, you were absolutely on fire.

1:01.8

You did like a big deep dive of all the intricacies of Stuart Skinner's butterfly, which the listeners really enjoyed.

1:08.1

So, you know, we always get dirty about it. They wrote articles off that in

1:12.3

Edmonton. They do, yeah. Got some aggregating going. Yeah. It was awesome. Although Oilers fans

1:17.0

really liked it because I feel like you so eloquently articulated everything they've been seeing.

1:21.9

We're going to get into some fun stuff today. Let's get into some listener questions. I put out

1:26.7

the bat signal that we were having you on.

1:28.3

The listeners and the PDOCast Discord came through with some fun stuff.

1:31.2

We're going to bounce around and get through as much of it as we can today.

1:33.9

Here's the first one.

1:35.2

Would love for Woodley to talk about Vasilevsky being back to his old self this year

1:38.6

and how much of a problem that could be for the rest of the league. Now, no one, I'd argue, is more well equipped to get into this particular topic because it is PDO cast established canon that the two of your close personal

1:48.7

friends. sources say you might even be vacationing together at some point this summer.

1:52.7

We've got to dial this back. Just because I dropped his name and having a good conversation

1:56.2

with him the last time he's in town, because now someone's going to like relay us to him as if I'm actually

2:00.8

pretending like we're buddies. Listen, I really enjoyed. He's a guy that I haven't had a chance

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