Paul Holmgren sat down with Dave Hakstol for a strange and uncomfortable meeting Monday, to deliver the news that the Flyers had fired Ron Hextall as their general manager. It had to be a shock to Hakstol’s system to learn that the man who had hired him to his first NHL job, who had championed him as the coach to shepherd the Flyers through a lengthy and oft-difficult rebuilding process, had been lost his job for doing what he had said he would do: sticking to that process. Yes, it had to be some kind of jolt to Hakstol, but it should have been clarifying, too.
The Flyers have made Dave Hakstol's mission clear, and he should embrace it | Mike Sielski
