Clever Willman taking a standard dumb Konecny penalty
- THE EVIL WITHIN

NAK wouldnt even have done that

So you're saying that Cam Atkinson, who is in the top 25 in the NHL in goals scored, can't finish?
- MJL

his break away % sucks

The only thing that was reported is what leaked out from the Flyers. This situation has been explained. How can you watch the mess that the team was before Hextall took over and after he was fired and not see the dysfunction. How can you not realize that the ole boy country club is why this team has sucked for a decade? Hextall wasn't a hot mess. Hextall knew that things had to change. When he attempted to change and address the dysfunction, the ole boys rebelled when he locked them out due to the major interference. This organization is too dumb and remains too dumb to realize that Hextall was correct. One of my hockey heroes put a stain on himself with his obvious hit job to try and protect his boy Chuck Fletcher. One of the country club members.
- MJL

The old guard nonsense is just marketing bs from those who like Hexy. It’s a get out of jail free card. It’s not hexys fault. It’s Clarke and Homers fault even though they are not even allowed in the dictators secret club.

He was the GM for 5 years. 5 years and we still don’t know how long it would have taken for him to turn it around. We know it was not 5 years. Was it 10 years 15 years.. ho much time did he need?

Does anyone know? He sure as shyt did not?

His apostles here cannot tell us just how much time he needed either. How much time did he need?

We know he ran the show and is partly responsible for this mess. I’ll say 65-35 this is his mess. I can be talked into 60-40.

I love the guy, but he failed here as a GM.

By the way - the guy has been stubborn since he held out of camp and destroyed his groin.

No one wanted him to be successful more than me. Maybe his parents.. but he just failed here as a GM. Sorry

Willman was plain dumb there, anytime you put your stick horizontal it's going to get called automatically
- jd250

Smart play by Pasta…clamped down on stick.

Giroux has been really good tonight. Hope other teams are watching

crazy to think edmonton is out of the playoffs right now
maybe they could use JVR or Giroux
- 2Real

Not shocking at all. Good example of a decade tank that didn’t work. If they don’t get a goaltender they’re toast even if they get in.

Sanheim is having a tough game, think he’s been out there for every goal as well

Giroux has been really good tonight. Hope other teams are watching
- ClaudeFather

Leads traded a 1st plus for foligno. What’s g worth?

Not shocking at all. Good example of a decade tank that didn’t work. If they don’t get a goaltender they’re toast even if they get in.
- Hextall271

They are after Kane

The old guard nonsense is just marketing bs from those who like Hexy. It’s a get out of jail free card. It’s not hexys fault. It’s Clarke and Homers fault even though they are not even allowed in the dictators secret club.

He was the GM for 5 years. 5 years and we still don’t know how long it would have taken for him to turn it around. We know it was not 5 years. Was it 10 years 15 years.. ho much time did he need?

Does anyone know? He sure as shyt did not?

His apostles here cannot tell us just how much time he needed either. How much time did he need?

We know he ran the show and is party responsible for this mess. I’ll say 65-35 this is his mess. I can be talked into 60-40.

I love the guy, but he failed here as a GM.

By the way - the guy has been stubborn since he held out of camp and destroyed his groin.

No one wanted him to be successful more than me. Maybe his parents.. but he just failed here as a GM. Sorry
- Joe Nardone

This narrative of asking how long it might have taken is asinine. Nobody can see into the future. If you can't see that how this team has conducted itself both under Holmgren and after they fired Hextall doesn't work, then you have blinders on. If you can't see that what Clarke was trying to do was protect Fletcher's job then you have blinders on. You can't fail in a patient draft and develop approach if you're not allowed to continue because the team lost patience.

Not shocking at all. Good example of a decade tank that didn’t work. If they don’t get a goaltender they’re toast even if they get in.
- Hextall271

it's like if the flyers lucked into mcdavid and mismanaged everything else

Giroux has been really good tonight. Hope other teams are watching
- ClaudeFather

This is sarcasm? Just checking.

The old guard nonsense is just marketing bs from those who like Hexy. It’s a get out of jail free card. It’s not hexys fault. It’s Clarke and Homers fault even though they are not even allowed in the dictators secret club.

He was the GM for 5 years. 5 years and we still don’t know how long it would have taken for him to turn it around. We know it was not 5 years. Was it 10 years 15 years.. ho much time did he need?

Does anyone know? He sure as shyt did not?

His apostles here cannot tell us just how much time he needed either. How much time did he need?

We know he ran the show and is partly responsible for this mess. I’ll say 65-35 this is his mess. I can be talked into 60-40.

I love the guy, but he failed here as a GM.

By the way - the guy has been stubborn since he held out of camp and destroyed his groin.

No one wanted him to be successful more than me. Maybe his parents.. but he just failed here as a GM. Sorry
- Joe Nardone

I have one serious question that I don’t have an answer for. If he is such an incompetent gm and bad manager how the heck did he get re hired with the penguins who are a successful org? I’m not defending anything, I just don’t get it. And I don’t buy the he’s babysat by Burke excuse. They could have gotten anyone else to be babysat.

There’s no way that if he was that bad he would have gotten re hired. The whole league would have known, and he’d never have another job. None. I don’t have an answer.

Giroux has been really good tonight. Hope other teams are watching
- ClaudeFather

perfectly invisible

This is sarcasm? Just checking.
- MJL

Won a ton of battles, puck possession , set up some shots

I have one serious question that I don’t have an answer for. If he is such an incompetent gm and bad manager how the heck did he get re hired with the penguins who are a successful org? I’m not defending anything, I just don’t get it. And I don’t buy the he’s babysat by Burke excuse. They could have gotten anyone else to be babysat.

There’s no way that if he was that bad he would have gotten re hired. The whole league would have known, and he’d never have another job. None. I don’t have an answer.
- Hextall271

crosby and co are on their way out he's the perfect scapegoat

Great saves by hart.

crosby and co are on their way out he's the perfect scapegoat
- 2Real

Ok. Why not hire milbury?

Won a ton of battles, puck possession , set up some shots
- ClaudeFather

sounds like a 4th liner's job

Ok. Why not hire milbury?
- Hextall271

because that's not plausible deniability

Won a ton of battles, puck possession , set up some shots
- ClaudeFather

Must of been while I was in the bathroom

I have one serious question that I don’t have an answer for. If he is such an incompetent gm and bad manager how the heck did he get re hired with the penguins who are a successful org? I’m not defending anything, I just don’t get it. And I don’t buy the he’s babysat by Burke excuse. They could have gotten anyone else to be babysat.

There’s no way that if he was that bad he would have gotten re hired. The whole league would have known, and he’d never have another job. None. I don’t have an answer.
- Hextall271

eventually the rebuild will come, hard and fast and with virtually nothing in the cupboard to start from.

at that point, im willing to let hextall take a shot and see what the build and develop plan is.

Great saves by hart.
- Hextall271

heart-stopping moments

heart-stopping moments
- Bendecko

Nervous whenever he handles the puck

I have one serious question that I don’t have an answer for. If he is such an incompetent gm and bad manager how the heck did he get re hired with the penguins who are a successful org? I’m not defending anything, I just don’t get it. And I don’t buy the he’s babysat by Burke excuse. They could have gotten anyone else to be babysat.

There’s no way that if he was that bad he would have gotten re hired. The whole league would have known, and he’d never have another job. None. I don’t have an answer.
- Hextall271

Well we hired Fletcher