Hextall to be named GM in Philly

meow · Post by **meow** » Wed May 07, 2014 9:29 am

Frank Seravalli @DNFlyers
#Flyers have called a press conference for 11:30am to promote Ron Hextall to GM and Paul Holmgren to president.

Post by **columbia** » Wed May 07, 2014 9:33 am

Hmmmm.

Post by **penny lane** » Wed May 07, 2014 10:04 am

Interesting. All these rumors with the caps & Wayne Gretzky ... nhl getting an elite mgmt group.
Sadly, still same garage culture in the referee union.

Post by **SolidSnake** » Wed May 07, 2014 10:41 am

Maybe he will try and get Carter and Richards back

Beveridge · Post by **Beveridge** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:01 am

I'm not sure if I like this. I've been safe knowing 2 turds were running the show in Washington and Philly and now both out in same off-season.

TheHammer24 · Post by **TheHammer24** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:04 am

I don't think ex-Players turn out to be good GMs. I'd prefer a savvy front office-man any time.

Post by **shafnutz05** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:26 am

TheHammer24 wrote:I don't think ex-Players turn out to be good GMs.

See: Paul Holmgren

brwi · Post by **brwi** » Wed May 07, 2014 12:19 pm

shafnutz05 wrote:
TheHammer24 wrote:I don't think ex-Players turn out to be good GMs.
See: Paul Holmgren

Or Garth Snow or Mike Milbury or Bob Gainey, et al.

One thing Ron Francis has going for him is some on the job experience already, as did some others who transitioned like Bergevin in MTL. He paid his dues after retiring to learn in various roles and it's working. Hextall has some very real experience himself with the Kingsand I hate to say it, but good hire for Filthy.

PfanTN · Post by **PfanTN** » Wed May 07, 2014 12:41 pm

TheHammer24 wrote:I don't think ex-Players turn out to be good GMs. I'd prefer a savvy front office-man any time.

Could be. But he did just spend 7 years under Dean Lombardi and won a cup as an assistant GM recently.

mikey287 · Post by **mikey287** » Wed May 07, 2014 12:53 pm

Hextall is pretty highly regarded around the league. The feeling is that teams were inquiring about his services and the Flyers decided to pull the trigger on the promotion now rather than risk losing him. Roughly, like the Jason Garrett/Dallas Cowboys scenario. I think they paid Garrett to stay for a year or so and then promoted him to the big cheese shortly thereafter. To my knowledge, Hextall has a good reputation around the league as an executive.

Post by **columbia** » Wed May 07, 2014 1:00 pm

I didn't realize that Gainey is associated with the Stars. That feels wrong.

Post by **Jim** » Wed May 07, 2014 1:29 pm

Thugs in the front office, thugs behind the bench... explains a lot...

Lt. Dish · Post by **Lt. Dish** » Wed May 07, 2014 5:15 pm

mikey287 wrote:Hextall is pretty highly regarded around the league. The feeling is that teams were inquiring about his services and the Flyers decided to pull the trigger on the promotion now rather than risk losing him. Roughly, like the Jason Garrett/Dallas Cowboys scenario. I think they paid Garrett to stay for a year or so and then promoted him to the big cheese shortly thereafter. To my knowledge, Hextall has a good reputation around the league as an executive.

It's so aggravating when the Flyers do something (arguably) smart.

mikey287 · Post by **mikey287** » Wed May 07, 2014 6:33 pm

It's better when they do something that seems smart at the time and then it totally backfires. Like Bryzgalov. Signing Pronger to what they thought was not an over-35 deal, when, in fact, it was. The attempted signing of Tomas Hyka.

So, here's hoping he's the worst GM in history (until his successor steps in and takes the crown), but that seems unlikely...

sniper · Post by **sniper** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:04 pm

He's got to go after a stud d-man this off-season. It will be interesting to see who and what he offers to get it.

MRandall25 · Post by **MRandall25** » Thu May 08, 2014 1:26 am

sniper wrote:He's got to go after a stud d-man this off-season.

Well, they're already paying Mark Streit a butt-ton of cash. The real question will be whether or not he thinks that's good enough.

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