So far Ron Hextall has been exactly as advertised

Photo by Ryan Yorgen/NHLI via Getty ImagesWhen the Philadelphia Flyers fired Ron Hextall a couple of years ago the perception put out by ownership was that they grew tired of his patience. It was not necessarily that he did a bad job, just that he did not do the type of job the Flyers wanted. They said they wanted a general manager that had “a bias for action.”

Meaning, somebody that was going to make a lot of moves.

That was not Hextall’s method.

Instead of constantly swinging for the fences and making a bunch of moves for the sake of making moves, he was happy to be patient, build with a long-term view in mind, and focus more on making the right moves.

It is a very different approach from…