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

Filipovich.

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast. My name is Dmitra Philipovich and joining me here in studio the day after game 5, the Stanley Cup final. We'll break it all down with me. He's my good buddy, Harmon Dyal. What's going on, man?

I'm excited to talk about the game. That was a really fun one. It was a really fun one. We're going to go through everything we saw during the Oilers win to extend the series and set up a game six on Friday night in Edmonton.

I guess we've got to start with talking about Connor McDavid, right, and his heroics and how much he's carrying this team offensively now in particular.

With them kind of on the ropes facing elimination down 3-0, he's posted back-to-back

four-point efforts.

You watch as that game five went along in particular, everything they created offensively

was almost due to his individual brilliance, right?

I thought, despite the fact that they scored a bunch of goals and he factored into,

what, four out of five of them, they weren't actually generating that much as a team aside from

him just carrying the puck and setting others up, right? Whether it was the dash at the end of the

power play to set up Perry's goal or a few others where, you know, he sets up a hymen near the net front,

draws a penalty, a few other instances like that,, he sets up a hymen near the net front, draws a penalty,

a few other instances like that.

He really took on the burden of everything.

And after, I don't want to say a slow start to this series, because I think anyone that was

watching could still appreciate, like, the stuff he was doing, how many chances he was creating,

how involved he was, he wasn't being rewarded for it on the score sheet. These final two games, or these two most recent games, he's finally broken through

and delivered on everything we expected to see from him.

And the Panthers got to be left wondering here, like, what do we do to at least make this manageable,

right?

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