The NHL draft will be held next week, over Friday, June 22, and Saturday, June 23, which gave Ron Hextall reason to talk the other day about last year’s NHL draft, in which something magical happened for the Flyers. I don’t mean magical in the way the word is often used in sports, as a synonym for marvelous or extraordinary. I mean magical in its strictest definition, in that something that was in front of everyone’s eyes became something else without anyone seeing it happen. Anyone, that is, except Hextall and the Flyers’ scouting staff, and the fact that they saw it lends some insight into his approach for rebuilding the team’s roster.
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