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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast.

My name is Dmitri Filipovich and joining me to recap game one of the Stanley Cup finals, my good buddy, Thomas Trance, Tom. What's going on, man?

I love the Stanley Cup final, man. You know, do you think it's just because we went a week without hockey that it felt extra good watching that game? Because even when stuff wasn't happening in the first period, I was like, it just feels so good to be back watching.

I'll be honest.

I actually think it was in, not in small part, like the presentation of the broadcast.

We're down in the United States.

Yes.

We're watching on the ESPN feed.

And I actually liked some of the reality show elements, bringing out the Stanley Cup, showing it to the players, you know, having them do starting lineups for both teams, like really giving an American audience or a casual viewing audience a sense of what these guys look like, who they are.

I felt like there was almost, yeah, it felt like a show in a different way.

And that's fun because sometimes the Stanley Cup final just feels like an extension of what

the playoffs have been all along.

And this actually felt distinct.

And I felt like waiting the amount of time that we did almost like an NFL news cycle week you know

Britt builds up the anticipation the storylines there's all this time to really sort of

savor and build up the stakes and and have the everything talked about and every you know

Tuesday the story is what the Oilers are doing with their lineup and by by Thursday, it's, I think all of that's fun.

Like, I think all of that aids to the feeling of it being a show. Yeah. And again, I love the Stanley Cup.

Like I saw Greg Wysinski bring up the fact that, you know, in the phase four secure zones in which the bubble hockey was played in the summer of 2022.

The players actually played in front of the Stanley Cup, almost like looking at it as if it were, you know,

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