Previewing The Avalanche vs. Golden Knights West Final
5/18/202649 min
Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Jesse Granger to preview this year's Western Conference Final between the Avalanche and the Golden Knights before it gets going on Wednesday night.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] Regressing to the mean since 2015. It's the Hockey PDO Cast with your host, Dimitri Filipovic.
Dimitri Filipovic· Host0:17
Welcome to the Hockey PDO Cast. My name's Dimitri Filipovic, and joining me is my good buddy, Jesse Granger. Jesse, what's going on, man?
Jesse Granger· Guest0:26
Not much. It is the best time of the year. It is an exhausting time of the year, traveling back and forth from city to city, but I've gotten used to it at this point [chuckles] covering the Knights. I'm a veteran to deep playoff runs, and it's, it's fun to watch a lot of playoff hockey in person.
Dimitri Filipovic· Host0:40
Well, you've got a, a fun trip to Denver ahead of you this week. But before we get there, um, we've got Habs-Sabres game seven on the schedule Monday night. I had your colleague at The Athletic, Arpon Basu, on the Patreon feed this morning. We broke that down and, and set that game up. So if you'd like to hear more on the East matchup, subscribe to the show there and check it out. While we wait for the East Final, though, um, to get sorted, we've got the West Final to look forward to, Avs-Golden Knights getting going on Wednesday night. And so I thought I'd have you on for the two of us to look ahead to that match up, kinda set the table for breaking down some of the most interesting things to watch for, everything you need to know about the two teams and the way they line up against each other. Let's start here with the fun stuff. Um, the battle atop the lineup, the chess match that we're anticipating in terms