The Penguins delivered the expected news today: Ron Hextall is out. After just over two years as the Pittsburgh Penguins general manager, the team relieved him of duties after failing to make the playoffs this season.
There were plenty of good reasons for that, with a mountain management decisions that rendered the Pens ineffective and impotent.
Here are the six biggest reasons that sealed Hextall’s fate, in chronological order.
#1: 2021 expansion draft fiasco
The train started to go off the tracks with the decisions leading up to the Seattle expansion draft in the summer of 2021.