The pain from April’s shocking first-round exit in the Stanley Cup Playoffs hasn’t lessened for Charlie Coyle.
The 31-year-old center doesn’t expect it to subside any time soon.
“I don’t think we’ll ever get over that, honestly,” Coyle said during an appearance on WEEI’s “Gresh and Fauria” show during Tuesday’s WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon. “It’s just, how quickly can you put it behind you, learn from it and move on. Use it as motivation. It never goes away. How do you use that, change it to fuel to fire you up, right? That’s how it goes.