In the wake of the Flyers firing GM Ron Hextall on November 26th, Flyers fans were left in a classic “He said/he said” situation. While team president Paul Holmgren and chairman Dave Scott painted a simple picture of “philosophical differences” and were fairly gracious to Hextall, a series of stories appearing in various mediums shed light on a side of Hextall that was none too flattering. Hextall was depicted as either an over-involved micromanager who was too single minded to see how his level of involvement affected those around him or a HR Haldeman-level tyrant, turning the Flyers front office in a Nixonian nightmare where plumbers hunted leaks and a small circle controlled everything.
Controlling the narrative
