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The Philadelphia Flyers Needed To Be At Their Best Against The Pittsburgh Penguins

04/23/2018 at 8:03am EDT

from Dave Isaac of the Courier Post,

Sean Couturier played two games with a torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee and was still, by far, the Flyers’ best player.

He notched the winner in Game 5 and followed it up with a hat trick and two assists in the Flyers’ 8-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, his first career five-point game and second playoff hat trick. Had the injury occurred in the regular season, he surmised, he would have missed four weeks. He’ll have plenty of time to recover because the Flyers’ season is over at the hands of the two-time defending champions who aim for a three-peat.

“There’s probably different reasons,” why the Flyers lost the series, Couturier said. “Early in the series we didn’t play our best. Today we let a two-goal lead slip. It shouldn’t happen in the playoffs. We’ll learn from it and become a stronger team next year.

“They’re the type of team where you make one mistake and they’ll make you (pay). It’s that simple. I don’t think they outplayed us. They just…they got their chances and capitalized right on them. It hurt us today.”

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