from Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer,
Too many players had off seasons at the same time. Too many players didn't answer the bell as the Flyers lost their first four games. Too many players didn't play with the same urgency on the road as they did at home.
"It's been three straight years where we haven't had a good start," Sean Couturier said. "And once you're behind in this league, it's hard to get back. Last year we did it, but I think in the long run, it kind of caught up to us."
Couturier said the Flyers need to "get the intensity level higher" at the outset of next season. "Game 1 is as important as Game 82," he said....
"We underachieved," coach Craig Berube said. "We've played better hockey than our record, but we obviously haven't won the games we needed, too - mostly on the road. If our record's .500 on the road, we're probably in a playoff spot."
Berube said there were "too many times where the game was there to be won, and we didn't get it done."
Will Berube take the fall for the failures? Hextall said he will evaluate things after the season. Twice in the last two weeks Hextall had a chance to give Berube a vote a confidence . . . and didn't do so.
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