The Flyers said they wanted to change the way they did business. They said they wanted Hextall to clean up their salary cap mess, to build through youth, to strategize through analytics, and to nurture their players through sports science. Hextall did all of those things ... yet Holmgren fired him eight days ago. Clearly, the Flyers never meant what they said four years ago. The men whose ideas led to decades of futility -- the men whom he was hired to replace -- essentially dumped Hextall for doing what he was hired to do.