“We certainly feel we played good enough to win tonight,” Larkin said. “The effort level is not the issue. It’s just when we’re on our game we need to capitalize, we need to make teams pay. We’re up 3-1 in Arizona and we don’t put it away. We got chances tonight and we don’t put it away. We need to start. That’s the maturing and the growing as a team. We need to find ways to put teams away.”

Lalonde said Hart was “amazing.”

“We had good traffic,” Lalonde said. “I thought the way he was seeing it. We generated some tips that were just going wide. One I had a perfect view in the second period. Point shot, we had a tip on it, it’s going right in and he finds a way to elevate his shoulder and get a piece of it. Just one of those nights when we ran into a world-class performance in net and we left a couple of plays out there.”...

The Flyers are adjusting to coach John Tortorella’s style and are 9-3 in their last 12 games. They are playing the hard-to-play against style that Lalonde also would like to see his team play consistently.

“Unfortunately, they were the first team to make a play in the third and we were the first team to make a slight mistake,” Lalonde said.

Larkin’s line, which included Raymond and Dominik Kubalik, was on the ice for both Philadelphia goals.

“We’re never gonna play a perfect game but we gotta play complete and pretty darn close to perfect,” Lalonde said. “We can’t leave plays out there and we left a couple out there tonight.

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Larkin and Lalonde post-game