I think the mistake lies first and foremost with Morehouse and Lemieux. Unless they were planning on a rebuild, hiring Hextall made zero sense.
Hextall's role in this was clearly having no set plan to get this team to where they wanted to go. He gave out bad contracts, made bad personnel decisions, and just did nothing to make this team better, in fact he made this team worse.
The blame also lies with FSG. They couldve seen that Hextall wasnt the guy and used the perfect excuse to fire him last offseason and bring in someone new that shared their vision. No way FSG wanted to rebuild so bring in a guy who can actually build a team.
- SuperHenderson13
Why would they of fired him when the Pens, despite some major injuries and riding a 3rd string goalie, looked f'n awesome until Sid went down in game 5 vs the team that went to the ECF?....When they won the division the season before under him?
