On a rainy Monday morning in late November, the Flyers made a move that suddenly changed the direction of the team entirely. It would be Ron Hextall, and not Dave Hakstol, that would pay the price for yet another slow start. An ex-player who had been brought in with great hopes and a brand-new plan, Hextall was, at least for a time, the compass that charted the team’s course. If so many agreed just a few years ago that Hextall may have been turning things around, why is he gone? At least in my view, that answer is that patience became the goal, not the means to an end.
Why Ron Hextall was relieved of his duties
