“If you’d have told me two years ago I’d be sitting here, the general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins, I would have started laughing, but here we are. I’m very excited about it.” — Ron Hextall, 2/9/2021
Hextall is not kidding, what a long strange journey it has been for him. Most known in Pittsburgh for being the hot-headed Flyers goalie from 1986-92 and then again from 1994-99. In recent years he was back as the Philadelphia general manager from 2014-18.
It’s that stint which we’re looking back at here, with help from a great GM career retrospective from Broad Street Hockey to learn more about what Hextall did on his first NHL GM job.