Hextall to be promoted to Flyers GM

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djw26 • 32 minutes ago
Hexy should go find Chelios and put a celebratory beating on him just for fun.
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hexyisback • an hour ago
YAHTZEE!!!!!!!!!!
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Grazman • 18 minutes ago
It shows they value Hextall enough to want to keep him. Other teams with GM vacancies were calling to interview Hextall.
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Professor1982 • 16 minutes ago
As long as Clarke, Holmgren and Snider stay out of Hextall's way, this could be a good move.
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fman727 Professor1982 • 13 minutes ago
Snider has been great... Puts money out there for the GM to spend. You cant blame an owner who gives them unlimited funds. You were probably loving lecav move, now you hate. If he somehow plays good next year you will love. Don't tear an ACL jumping on/off.
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Professor1982 fman727 • 12 minutes ago
Please. Thowing good money at a bad problem is NOT how to get things done.

Snider over reacts rather than thinking things through. Nearly 40 yrs without a cup proves my point.
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fman727 Professor1982 • 10 minutes ago
whats the problem? Goalie- solved...
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Professor1982 fman727 • 7 minutes ago
Easy...the Flyers are playing golf right now while the Rangers moved on....THAT's the problem.

Flyers are a mediocre team at best.

They still have no real leader on the ice, have no one to properly set up Giroux and no solid defenseman.

Goalies alone do not win Cups and nearly 40 yrs without a cup proves the point.
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fman727 Professor1982 • 3 minutes ago
Rangers are about to play golf too. Agree no solid D guy but its not like, hey lets go online and buy one.
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fman727 Professor1982 • 4 minutes ago
Oh I totally agree, mediocre. But you cant blame a GM. that's my only point. G needs a winger- Kane? They tried to get Bobby Ryan, cant blame GM.... Goalies sure can lose you a cup chance. Is montreal better then boston- nope. is carey price playing unreal- Yup. 2-1 Montreal in series.
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DroolingSquidChucker fman727 • 3 minutes ago
Good Call Fman! Too many flip floppers!!!
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Joe Professor1982 • 14 minutes ago
I pray they do. I have nothing but respect for Mr Snider but since the (forced) signing of Bryz, he's become the Al Davis of hockey.
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Zeke • 20 minutes ago
Won't matter.
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brain_bomb • 29 minutes ago
I'll take anyone other than Holmgren at this point. You can only suck for so long until you get fired from your job (errr or promoted?)... You could have given the job to a homeless bum in Center City and I'd have been just as happy.
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Jocksniffer35 brain_bomb • 8 minutes ago
Except for Rube of course
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juicy@34 • an hour ago
Awesome! Best move ever!
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ThisTeamisUnlikeable. juicy@34 • 44 minutes ago
tell me why? other than the thing sucks!
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Luke Sykwalker • an hour ago
Snider keeps Homer, but moves him out of the personnel decisions. Smart move.
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stylito Luke Sykwalker • an hour ago
But I wonder if he WILL still have personnel input...Is Hexy his puppet?
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Russell stylito • 19 minutes ago
Can't see Hextall being anyone's puppet
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Knuble stylito • 19 minutes ago
They all serve at the lap of Bobby and Ed. As long as those two are still involved it will be a revolving door where young talent is shipped out, in exchange for aging veterans who are way past their prime. Its been the Flyers MO for how many years now?
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fman727 Luke Sykwalker • 16 minutes ago
Homer has had incredible drafts. Great trades. 2 horrible signings. Had the b*lls to fire a coach after 3 games. Lets not forget that. Love Hexy though!
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Doctor Jay • an hour ago
Great move!
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ThisTeamisUnlikeable. Doctor Jay • 41 minutes ago
other than the thing sucks tell me why tall as gm is a great move?
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Michael ThisTeamisUnlikeable. • 39 minutes ago
Tell me why it isn't...
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fman727 Michael • 16 minutes ago
Makes no difference. Players play the game
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USAFirst1 • 3 minutes ago
more of the same from Snider..
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wampwamp • 12 minutes ago
People do realize Hextall and Holmgren see the game very similarly, right?
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Professor1982 wampwamp • 9 minutes ago
Hextall has won a cup....

Holmgren has not.
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wampwamp Professor1982 • 8 minutes ago
Dean Lombardi won a cup.
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Knuble • 20 minutes ago
Honestly, nothing is going to change. Bobby Clarke and Ed Snider are still calling the shots from behind the scenes, everyone else from the President down to the team trainer, and including the on air staff, are all just puppets.
These changes energize the fan base for a little while, and then either Snider gets frustrated and fires someone to feel better (Laviolette), or the person asks to be let go (Hitchcock) because they can not take the brow-beating any longer from someone with no track record of winning anything since the Ford administration.
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rorbo444 • 21 minutes ago
Move along,nothing to see here folks until Snider is out of the picture.More of the same
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DJ • 23 minutes ago
That's been carved into the ice for quite some time, now we'll know it's official, just sayin'...
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jpb • 25 minutes ago
So, it goes Snider (Chairman), Holmgren (President - a title that didn't exist before), Hextall (GM). How is that different from today, when it's Snider (Chairman), Holmgren (GM), Hextall (Assistant GM / Dir. Hockey Ops)? Just sounds like a couple of raises.
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hockeyray • 27 minutes ago
Philadelphia is hosting the Draft next month so Flyers have to put on best organizational face.
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bdd5014 • 31 minutes ago
Great for Hextall but how the heck does Homer get promoted?
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fman727 bdd5014 • 15 minutes ago
Holmgren known as one of the best scouting guys. Look at our drafts, very very solid. Its the signings we all hate
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Professor1982 fman727 • 13 minutes ago
Actually, its the lack of signings we all hate. They needed to resign Briere, Jagr and another physical imposing defenseman.
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fman727 Professor1982 • 7 minutes ago
Did snider put $100M out there for the #1 D guy in NHL??? YES HE DID
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fman727 Professor1982 • 8 minutes ago
Lack of signings? Jagr maybe.. Briere had a chance to get out, had to take it. but maybe your right briere's 8 goals this year would have been huge! just stop...... Please name the imposing defenseman we didn't sign? i'll wait, since they all grow on trees
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Rochesterflyer bdd5014 • 29 minutes ago
It's done all the time, "kick him upstairs."
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Friendly Owl • 32 minutes ago
I support this.
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CB4 • 38 minutes ago
It's about time -- and well deserved. Good luck, Red light, Ronnie!
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Mark1npt • 41 minutes ago
Gee, didn't Homer just say he'd be back next year as GM....guess Ed made him an offer he couldn't refuse?
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ThisTeamisUnlikeable. • 43 minutes ago
u people are idiots, u will be bashing tall when he screws up next year!
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Sugar Smith • an hour ago
YES! maybe he can play back up goalie too.
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joeingoal • an hour ago
OK, who's surprised by this?

 

[bacon]

I really don't know man, there seems to be a lot of mixed emotions, have to love it from a nostalgic point of view but I don't follow NHL money matters much at all. Berube seems to be a great fit, though like many others I think we could have beaten the Rangers with how well Mason played. Vinny has really disappointed and we need to figure out what to do with him. It was good to see Lavvy land a gig in Nashville, he is a well deserving NHL coach.

 

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Nostalgia will never win you a cup. I think Hextall, as GM, might work out well in Philly. I'd like ot see him make some bold moves right from the start.

 

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Nostalgia has won a cup at least once.

 

[Saulty]

I like this move.

 

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Why do you like it Saulty?

 

[bacon]

I like it as well Saulty, don't tell Pucky why you like it I won't either.

 

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Play nice, BB.

 

[bacon]

It's not personal, it's the new Hextall regime. We say nothing and we do like the Kings and sneak up on everyone.

Shit works. I guess a goalie like Quick works too but hey who's counting.