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

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is Dimitra Filipovich, and joining, and joining me as my good buddy Thomas Trans. Tom, what's going on, man?

Not much, buddy. I'm excited about this one, actually. I thought that was a game that felt and looked a little bit closer to what I thought this series might. You know, I had the Panthers coming in.

I thought the Panthers might have the gas at five on five to do it somewhat quickly.

And then, you know, after game one, I was like, oh, my goodness.

At the end of the day, even if they kept the Oilers off the board, and even if I didn't

think the Oilers dominated, quote unquote, the way the

discourse suggested. Wait, did you see the deserve to win a meter though? Yeah, I did. And then I... The bane of our

existence. And, you know, I saw the individual game expected goals numbers too, but, you know,

at the end of the day, even if I didn't think the Panthers dominated the way that

the conversation may be reflected, I did think that McDavid and Bouchard, that top

end of the Oilers lineup, was able to generate territorial control at a level that I didn't

quite anticipate coming into the series.

And then sort of game two unfolds.

And I think the Panthers ability to bottle the Oilers up in their own end, you know, really became the story of game two to the point where going into that third period 1-1, and I said it to you as we were watching, I was just like,

this does not feel like a 1-1 game.

This feels like an inevitability for the Florida Panthers, and as it turned out, it was.

It was, and I think we somewhat got our answer.

I don't think it was definitive by any means.

It's still early in the series, but I think we left game one kind of posing this question

of while I think the game in the aggregate to start the series, but I think we left game one kind of posing this question of while

the, I think the game in the aggregate to start the series certainly favored Edmonton and

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