Not after Wednesday's announcement by Flyers president Paul Holmgren that two more heads had rolled in the wake of the Ron Hextall firing, including a coach Hakstol later called "a great mentor for me in that coaches' room."
But as we have once again learned about that organization, things are not always as they seem. And the reality, as counterintuitive as it seemed at first, is that Wednesday's firings of director of player personnel and assistant general manager Chris Pryor and assistant coach Gord Murphy were, in the weirdest of ways, a vote of confidence for the head coach Hextall plucked from college four summers ago.