DALLAS — At the NHL draft this weekend in steamy Dallas, Hexy wasn’t sexy.
Flyers general manager Ron Hextall didn’t make any major moves as Los Angeles did in signing Ilya Kovalchuk to a three-year deal worth $6.25 million per season, or Carolina and Calgary, teams that completed a huge deal.
Hextall didn’t have a draft as productive as the division-rival New York Islanders, who came away with mega-prospects Oliver Wahlstrom, a right winger who could become a prolific scorer, and Noah Dobson, a blue-chip defenseman.
And he wasn’t able to move up in the draft and get one of the marquee right-handed defensemen such as Dobson, Adam Boqvist, or Evan Bouchard.