Ron Hextall opened the off season by saying that the Flyers were on the right course with his plan, but admitted that nobody was satisfied with simply making the playoffs. That didn’t mean that the Flyers were going to revert to the Big-Splash-Paul-Holmgren days, but it gave fans some hope that Hextall would be a lot more active in bringing in quality NHL players this summer than he had in the past.
Hextall has to know there was a growing segment of fans that were not really happy with him sitting on his hands at the trade deadline (outside of the necessary trade to add goalie Petr Mrazek after both Brian Elliott and Michal Neuvirth went down with injuries).