News about Ron Hextall

When the Pittsburgh Penguins were hired in February 2021, Ron Hextall and Brian Burke were asked to thread an extremely thin needle. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang, the club's general manager, and Burke, the director of hockey operations, were asked to find a way to prop open the championship window for actors Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang without sacrificeing the club's long-term future. Hextall and Burke are out of work after two brief and turbulent years of significant change on either front.

Kris Letang, a Pittsburgh Penguins defensiveman, is out indefinitely after suffering a stroke for the second time in his career, but the team insists the condition is not life threatening. The 35-year-old Letang first reported symptoms to the team's education workers on Monday, according to general manager Ron Hextall. Due to what the team referred to as an illness, he was held out of Tuesday night's 3-2 overtime loss to Carolina. Letang is not experiencing 'any lasting effects,' according to the team, and is undergoing further testing. The stroke doesn't appear to be 'career threatening,' Hextall said.'