The franchise that serves as the template for Ron Hextall's plan to restore the Flyers to greatness has missed the playoffs two of the last three seasons, hasn't won a postseason series since the late spring of 2014, and fired its general manager and coach in April. The Los Angeles Kings could stay home Thursday night to watch Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals, between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators. They've been home the entire postseason, just like the Flyers. When a team climbs as high as the Kings did, there is usually a steep fall, but it's the heights that the Kings reached and maintained not long ago, of course, that Hextall wants to soar to here.
If the Kings gave Ron Hextall a model, how close are the Flyers to replicating it? | Mike Sielski
