Emotional lows, accountability, finishing-Pens struggles [Video]

PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – It’s the question of the hour, day, week, couple of weeks. Why weren’t the Pens able to play the way they played the last three weeks over the entire season?

There are several opinions, here are some of them from the Pens locker room a day after the season ended.

“I think we had some times during the season where we just got too low emotionally and quality of play, when we were so far from our best. (It took) a little too long where we didn’t get points,” said former Capitals and first-year Pens forward Lars Eller on Thursday as the team was cleaning out their respective lockers.

“There were times where I felt like we had a firm grip on games where we had leads or even multiple-goal leads that we didn’t close out. A lot of those games we felt like we were the …