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Ron lived up to his aggressive reputation in the Conference final, played against the St. Catharines Saints, fighting three different members of the opposition side during a single bench-clearing brawl. Catharines Saints 4—3.

In the final, they faced the Adirondack Red Wings, who won the championship by four games to two. Ron played 13 games in the playoffs, of which his team won five, and his GAA was 3.

Looking back on his time in the AHL, Ron reflected that despite his initial disappointment at not being selected to play for the Flyers straight away, " the two years that I spent in the American League got me to the point where I was sure I could be a No.

His play in four exhibition games convinced Flyers' coach Mike Keenan to call up him to the NHL and to play him in the opening game of the season against the Edmonton Oilers. Ron conceded a goal from the first shot he faced in the game, but he allowed no further shots past him, leading his side to a 2—1 victory. Ron continued to display the aggressive nature with which he had always played, swinging his stick at Brad Smith and Troy Murray early in his first NHL season. Despite these swipes, he claimed at the time that, " I used to be worse, I've learned to control my temper.

Two months after making these comments, Ron was involved in a fight with opposing New Jersey Devils goaltender Alain Chevrier. Having lost to the Devils, the Flyers wanted revenge for Steve Richmond 's punch on Kjell Samuelsson at the end of the game; Hextall targeted Chevrier in a fight labelled by Chico Resch as " like a heavyweight against a lightweight. In 66 regular season games during his rookie year, he posted a GAA of 3. He was awarded the Vezina Trophy for the most outstanding goaltender by the NHL general managers, but he was second in the voting to Luc Robitaille for the Calder Memorial Trophy, awarded to the " player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition ".

Following their series victory over Montreal, Flyers captain Dave Poulin identified Ron as the team's leading performer. In the fourth game of the Finals, Ron received two penalties; first a ten-minute misconduct penalty for " expressing his displeasure at the fourth Oiler goal " and later a five-minute penalty for slashing Kent Nilsson.

In the latter incident, Ron had received a slash from Glenn Anderson for which there was no call from the referees and he sought revenge by striking the back of Nilsson's knees. After the game Hextall expressed remorse for striking the wrong player but not for his action, saying:. What's he going to do next, break my arm? I'm sorry it was Nilsson and not Anderson I hit, but I just reacted.

At the time, it seemed the right thing to do. The performance of Hextall in the next game tied the series and forced a seventh game; at the end, the Flyers team surrounded Ron in congratulation and Edmonton Oilers player Kevin Lowe said that he "held them in it". Between the sixth and seventh games, the Oilers' forward Wayne Gretzky described Ron as " probably the best goaltender I've ever played against in the NHL. Robin Finn writing in The New York Times said that the team won the title " without their trademark, those endless waves of madcap scoring ," primarily due to the " heroics of Hextall ".

Flyers teammate Rick Tocchet said that when he realised his side were going to lose, his " first thought was to feel sorry for Ronny Hextall, because he did everything he could to get us here and keep us in it.

Ron was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy for the most valuable player in the playoffs, becoming only the fourth player from a losing side to be awarded the trophy. During the off-season, he received an eight-game suspension for the start of the —88 season after his slash on Nilsson. Speaking on behalf of the NHL, Brian O'Neill said that: "There is no justification for any player to swing his stick in retaliation and this is especially the case for a goaltender whose stick, because of its weight, can cause serious injury.

The Flyers had a difficult start to the —88 season, partly attributed by Keenan to the absence of Hextall. Hextall returned to the Flyers line-up against the New York Rangers, and made over 40 saves in a 2—2 tie. Just over a month later, Ron became the first goaltender to shoot at goal and score in the NHL when he scored an empty net goal towards the end of a game against the Boston Bruins. The Flyers led 4—2 which prompted the Bruins to pull their goaltender in favour of an extra attacker.

The puck was dumped into the Philadelphia zone by the Bruins and he picked it up without any players near him; his shot fired into the air, bounced and rolled into the net. Ron had targeted becoming the " first NHL goaltender to score a true goal " over a year earlier, and, speaking after the game, commented that: " I knew I could do it. It was a matter of when. Despite his early season suspension, and a shoulder injury late in the season which made him miss five games, Ron played 62 of the 67 games for which he was available during the regular season.

He recorded 30 wins, and a GAA of 3. Ron struggled in the playoffs: he was replaced in successive games of the series against the Washington Capitals having conceded four goals in each.

In the final two games of the series, which the Capitals won 4—3, he gave up a further 12 goals, and completed the playoffs with a GAA of 4. In each of his first two seasons, Ron accumulated penalty minutes during the regular season, the first time that a goaltender had collected over In the —89 season, he broke his own record, being assessed penalty minutes, the most by any goaltender in an NHL season as of Ron completed the —89 regular season with 30 wins, the third consecutive season in which he had recorded so many, and the first time a goaltender had recorded 30 wins in each of their first three seasons in the NHL.

The Flyers finished fourth in the Patrick Division and qualified for the playoffs. They faced the Washington Capitals in the first round, and the teams shared the first four games. The Flyers won the fifth, despite being 5—4 down in the third period. Flyers' defenceman Mark Howe credited their victory to Hextall. Late in the game, the Capitals pulled their goaltender and Ron scored the second goal of his career. The puck was shot into the Flyers' left defensive zone by Scott Stevens and he went around the back of his net, controlled the puck and shot at goal.

He became the first goaltender to score a goal in the NHL playoffs. The Flyers won 8—5, and went on to win the series 4—2, which Joe Sexton of the New York Times attributed primarily to Hextall's return to form. Against the Penguins in the Patrick Division Final, Ron's performances were mixed: he under-performed early in the series, and in game five was swapped out of the net and then reinstated twice during a 10—7 defeat for the Flyers.

He faced 17 shots in the game, conceding nine of the Penguins goals. After the game, Ron denied being out of control, despite having assaulted one of the officials and chasing Rob Brown around the ice.

He said, " I like to think I'm strong mentally. The Penguins coach, Gene Ubriaco agreed with Ron's assessment, and believed the goaltender lost control intentionally: " He uses a loss of control to his advantage, in a way.

He's the extreme example of controlled violence. And they [the Flyers] live and die with it. The Flyers won the next game to force a decider, but Ron was ruled out of the contest with a first degree sprain of the medial collateral ligament MCL in his right knee. Ron's injury kept him out of the first three games of the series against the Canadiens, during which the Canadiens took a 2—1 lead. He returned for the fourth game, but he could not prevent his side losing 3—0.

The Flyers won the following game to extend the series to six games, but lost the next game 4—2 and they were eliminated. Ron displayed his violent side during the final minutes of game six, skating out of his crease to attack Chris Chelios. He claimed that the attack was in retaliation for Chelios' hit on his Flyer teammate Brian Propp in game one when Chelios caught Flyer Propp with a " flying elbow " to the side of the head, rendering him unconscious.

Ron was given a game suspension for his actions at the beginning of the —90 season. Following the announcement of the suspension, he stated his disappointment and added that his intention was to fight rather than hurt Chelios. The Flyers refused to deal with the agent and at a tearful press conference, he declared his contract invalid and announced that he would not take part in the team's training camp.

After negotiations about which neither side revealed details, Ron returned to practice with the team on October 20, 42 days later. He suffered a slight groin pull during his first game back, and in his second, he hurt his left hamstring.

Just under a month later while playing for the Hershey Bears in an attempt to establish his fitness, he was carried off the ice after once more hurting his groin. Ron continued to be plagued by groin injuries during the next two seasons, twice straining his left groin muscle in the —91 season.

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Matej Tomek was selected with the 3rd round pick. June 26 - traded a 1st round pick and a 2nd round pick for a 1st round pick selected Travis Konecny. June 27 - traded Chris Pronger and Nicklas Grossman to Arizona for Sam Gagner and a 4th round pick the pick was trade a few times and eventually used in the package to move up to select Isaac Ratcliffe. June traded Brayden Schenn to St. Not a lot here, and frankly a number of these moves Lecavalier, Pronger, Hartnell, Grossman were used to move out lengthy and bad contracts, sometimes dead cap money in order to clear out mistakes from the past regime.

One other interesting note is that Hextall was not afraid to be active on draft day and shuffle picks around to move up and get his guy. Typically July 1 deals end up making a player rich, and a team regret it. Most of his moves were cheap deals to try and add goaltending the Flyers story! The van Riemsdyk contract is probably controversial, though the now year old is living up to it by currently leading the team in with 18 points in 13 games.

His drafting record has been very strong, his trade history is not very active relative to Rutherford, besides on draft days. In all, Hextall was a manager who inherited a cap mess and a team in need of young talent, and eventually he gradually stocked the team up to where they are a very competitive club, and holds nose should remain so for several years with the core of players that Hextall provided.