Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Penguins; they were clearly the better team last night and they deserved to win the game and the series.

As noted– they are a bit ahead of  us in their rebuild; and their experience in big games in the playoffs shined through last night.They are a deep–talented– fast and skilled team and they deserved to move onto the next round.We wish them good luck the rest of the way in the playoffs.

We will decompress for a bit– get introspective and try to get some distance from the emotions of a tough game 7 loss in the second round to a team that was clearly better than us; while we made progress during the  season — last night’s performance was a let down and shows we have much work left to do to meet our ultimate goal of a Stanley Cup.

We were all touched by the fan base last night — the two minute standing ovation at game’s end–in a blow out loss- was truly spectacular–and was moving and we are all  appreciative of  your thoughtfulness and your love.

We will give everyone a day to chill out– then hold meetings on Friday– and then get started on off season planning and get back to work next week.

Thank you for a great season; and a good playoff run– we will continue to improve; we are committed to meeting all of  our goals; onward; Go Caps.