On topic, Fletcher was terrible. How do you not making room for Gaudreau? How do you not recoup any assets at the trade deadline?
Athletic's Charlie O'Connor has a good read on the terrible Flyers management. Flyers need to remove the 'senior advisors' -- Bobby Clarke, Bill Barber, Paul Holmgren. They're the ones who are obsessed with 'Flyers Culture' and handpicked guys like Ristolainen and De'angelo and Tortorella for their 'old school' character.
Hextall was competent, patient, stockpiled and developed draft picks and didn't listen to the crotchety advisors, so they canned him for yes-man Chuck Fletcher, who went on to completely destroy the franchise.
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Gaudreau > Huberdeau AINEC
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