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PHILADELPHIA – After their final practice early last week in San Jose just before they departed for the road, there wasn’t any panic in the voices of Joe Pavelski or Pete DeBoer. Despite losing eight of their previous 11 games, the captain and the coach felt their team game wasn’t too far from where it needed to be.
Three games into the trip – all wins – perhaps now we know why.
“We felt like we were doing a lot of good things, giving ourselves a lot of opportunities [to be] in position to win, and we weren’t finding that way to win,” Pavelski said on Thursday morning.