Ron Hextall talks about “hunger”, defensive logjam, Jarry’s contract

Ron Hextall is known as a quiet personality who keeps a lot of professional information close to the vest, but for the most part when he does talk in public, he’s been a straight shooter. He’s said things like his priority was to keep his first round pick, and the team kept his first round pick. He has wanted the organization to get bigger and slowly but surely the impact to add size through the draft and free agency is starting to trickle in. Hextall said his priority was re-signing Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin, an the Pens did just that.

So while Hextall will probably never have the reputation or be as free-wheeling as his media darling predecessor who was never shy on giving quotes, it…