Fire Ron Hextall.
As in, unconditionally.
Meaning that, even if these fatally flawed Penguins were to somehow find yet another second life and sneak into the Stanley Cup playoffs, even if they were to take Boston by storm and bounce the greatest regular-season team in NHL history, even if they were to stun further into the next round ... this general manager must be fired.
No questions asked. Turn in the keys. There's the door.
I don't write columns like this casually. I don't take the subject matter lightly, whether it's a GM, a head coach, a manager, even their assistants and specialists.