When the Philadelphia Flyers fired Ron Hextall a couple of years ago the perception put out by ownership was that they grew tired of his patience. It was not necessarily that he did a bad job, just that he did not do the type of job the Flyers wanted. They said they wanted a general manager that had “a bias for action.”
Meaning, somebody that was going to make a lot of moves.
That was not Hextall’s method.
Instead of constantly swinging for the fences and making a bunch of moves for the sake of making moves, he was happy to be patient, build with a long-term view in mind, and focus more on making the right moves.