Ron Hextall’s reign of error with the Pittsburgh Penguins ended roughly 10 months ago. Less than a full calendar year. Less than a full NHL regular season. The most striking thing about that, aside from how bad those couple of years were, is that today, just 10 months later, there are almost none of his fingerprints still on the Penguins’ NHL roster.
They are, for the most part, completely gone.
This was something I stumbled across the other day when looking at the breakdown of this roster, and it really struck me how quickly almost everybody he acquired was purged from the roster.