Philadelphia Flyers GM Ron Hextall has been lying low the last few weeks, as you would expect as the playoffs closed out. Surely there was a lot of planning going on behind closed doors, but there was no reason to speak out.
Hextall came out of his shell and showed himself a bit yesterday when holding a press conference regarding the buyout of RJ Umberger, dropping a few interesting nuggets.
Speaking about Matt Read, Hextall revealed that Read had minor surgery on his had on Wednesday. The surgery was on his shooting hand, and Hextall also added that the team needs more from Read after his second straight down year of production.