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The Flyers’ balanced forward depth abandoned them in the playoffs

Even in winning seven games across two playoff series before bowing out to the New York Islanders last Saturday, things never quite felt right for the Flyers in this postseason. They were chasing the play far more often than the “top seed” should have been (and even if you figure that they were probably only the third- or fourth-best team in the East during the regular season, they still had significant edges on paper over the two teams they faced), they were relying on Carter Hart quite a bit, and rarely did it feel like they were clicking at the rate they were around January when the team started to reach another level.