Chinatown88
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I feel like if anyone of us would break out of the simulation it would be you first.
Miscellaneous NHL Discussion XCIII: Spring has Sprung
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not concerned..as they have shown with Liverpool..they don't spend money or invest in the squad
JojoTheWhale
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The Yohe article on the Hextall postmortem reads like @Striiker wrote it. Jesus. They loathe that man.
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Yohe: Ron Hextall, in the end, didn't have the backbone for the Penguins' GM job
Ron Hextall, above all else, didn't have the conviction of his Penguins GM predecessors.
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Magua
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You’re going to see the massive divide between the people running these two franchises this summer. It’s fitting really, as they look at filling the same GM/President roles.
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The Yohe article on the Hextall postmortem reads like @Striiker wrote it. Jesus. They loathe that man.
Yohe: Ron Hextall, in the end, didn't have the backbone for the Penguins' GM job
Ron Hextall, above all else, didn't have the conviction of his Penguins GM predecessors.
“Hextall was also guilty of nepotism to extremes. His son has a job in the organization. Pryor’s son has a job in the organization. Jeff Carter, Hextall’s buddy from Los Angeles, received a two-year contract extension in January of 2022, during a time in which such a move was completely unnecessary.”
(Most ironic is Pryor’s son being one of the better nepotism hires the Flyers made.)
They seem to have thrown some money NASCAR way as the team they own has taken a step forward over the last season or so.
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Hextall was a Flyers sleeper agent. Job well done.
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Doesn't that sound an awful lot like the complaints about Fletcher?The Yohe article on the Hextall postmortem reads like @Striiker wrote it. Jesus. They loathe that man.
Yohe: Ron Hextall, in the end, didn't have the backbone for the Penguins' GM job
Ron Hextall, above all else, didn't have the conviction of his Penguins GM predecessors.
But it shows the impact of the FO when the GM doesn't have true authority - "aggressive reload", keep Malkin and Letang and try to compete. Both cases the FO was delusional and the GM went along to get along (and kept those paychecks coming).
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BernieParent
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It seems pretty clear that this writer had much distaste for Hextall as an ex-Flyer from the outset.The Yohe article on the Hextall postmortem reads like @Striiker wrote it. Jesus. They loathe that man.
Yohe: Ron Hextall, in the end, didn't have the backbone for the Penguins' GM job
Ron Hextall, above all else, didn't have the conviction of his Penguins GM predecessors.
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Guys mentored by Clarke act similarly? Shocking stuff, truly.
BackToTheBrierePatch
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It would be so Flyers to bring back Hextall and Burke. The song remains the same
JojoTheWhale
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But it doesn't sound like the post-Hextall firing leaks here at all, which is the bit I find to be most instructive. We've both confirmed our priors. Terrible job out of both of us.
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It was said after his Flyers firing that Hextall would cloister himself away with Pryor to make all decisions, so our view of his tenure here might not be as incongruous as that writer made it sound. Calling him a “people pleaser” because he listened to his favorite resource — his longtime AGM — is a bit much. For a people pleaser, he sure didn’t please anyone.
As always, it’s a matter of perspective. That article sounds like a Fletcher hit piece. But I guess we have more perspective than the Penguins on what a truly deferential milquetoast manager looks like. Hextall was a horrible NHL evaluator and stubborn to a fault. Honestly, as far as the Athletic goes in quality, that reads like a FanSided article.
As always, it’s a matter of perspective. That article sounds like a Fletcher hit piece. But I guess we have more perspective than the Penguins on what a truly deferential milquetoast manager looks like. Hextall was a horrible NHL evaluator and stubborn to a fault. Honestly, as far as the Athletic goes in quality, that reads like a FanSided article.
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Hextall was in a situation where he could have pushed all his chips in asset & cap wise which he did but he ultimately did so on players you’d expect a Lombardi/Clarke/Holmgren disciple would.
Chinatown88
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I was going to invite the lot of you to Seattle's bandwagon, knowing how much all of you miss Hakstol.
But my god, eight of you...8!! are hitching yourselves to the f***ing oilers. Gross. The Canes I can get with, but how can you support the team that wasted everyone's time FOR A DECADE vacuuming up first overalls until finally getting lucky. At least Pittsburgh had the decency to turn the tank off after four years of that nonsense.
But my god, eight of you...8!! are hitching yourselves to the f***ing oilers. Gross. The Canes I can get with, but how can you support the team that wasted everyone's time FOR A DECADE vacuuming up first overalls until finally getting lucky. At least Pittsburgh had the decency to turn the tank off after four years of that nonsense.
BackToTheBrierePatch
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My wife likes the Kraken because she has family roots there. She also is a Seahawks fan. I think the Kraken are one and done but that turnaround was impressive. I do want them to surprise people
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I don't care about who plays what position, I want to see a line of Zegras, Bedard and Terry.
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He's been a mismatch for their roster for a while. He demands a ton of skating from wingers and that's where the Caps age is focused. Not a coincidence they were always on fumes in the playoffs.
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Oh? What did he say about birds?The Yohe article on the Hextall postmortem reads like @Striiker wrote it. Jesus. They loathe that man.
Yohe: Ron Hextall, in the end, didn't have the backbone for the Penguins' GM job
Ron Hextall, above all else, didn't have the conviction of his Penguins GM predecessors.
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