PHILADELPHIA -- The eyes would strongly suggested the Penguins were exhausted to the extreme.
The ears ... well, Mike Sullivan's ears, anyway, suggested otherwise. By fuming figurative smoke from either side.
"No," he'd bite back when asked whether fatigue might be a fair excuse for his team getting flat-lined, 3-0, by the Flyers on this Tuesday night at Wells Fargo Center. "Nor should it be. We just weren’t very good."
Too much east-west, maybe? Not enough dumping deep?
"There wasn’t anything," he'd bite right back again. "For me, it was a lack of executing, lack of attention to detail, no sense of urgency, no cooperative play.