24 hours pass yet another trip across the turnpike passes i found myself on the drive home thinking a lot less

about game six when i was about the first three.

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Today will be Locker Clean Out Day.

Up in Cranberry, Dan Mews, will speak with reporters, select players, as the team has worded it.

We'll speak with us as well.

It's a final chance to talk to a lot of people about a lot of stuff, but mostly, and I've

been at a bunch of these over the years, it's about the future.

It's about what needs to happen next.

It's about the summer that's ahead.

And when it comes to the younger guys in particular, it's about lessons learned and things that they can apply, whether it's conditioning, nutrition, etc.

On my own perspective, the questions that I've had about the first three games of this first round playoff loss to the Flyers have been answered,

even if they could never be all the way answered,

because you're never going to have some unanimous outlook on something like that.

The question that I asked most commonly of players,

including after the game a couple nights ago

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