Hextall Comments On Idea Of Buying Out Jori Lehtera.

"The Philadelphia Flyers and general manager Ron Hextall have plenty of decisions to make this summer. According to the Flyers GM, he's already made a couple of those, stating he won't re-sign Matt Read, Brandon Manning or Johnny Oduya. Another file that Hextall will have to look at is the future of Jori Lehtera. The forward has one year left at $4.7million, and Sam Carchidi stated earlier in the week that he expected Hextall to buy him out and give him some more cap space to play with heading into free agency. Well that doesn't seem to be the plan as Hextall stated he plans on keeping Lehtera around at the moment to keep some depth at center. Lehtera only scored three goals and five assists in 62 games this year, the worst season of his career so far. Would you like to see Hextall keep Lehtera around or should he be bought out?

Hextall told Jori Lehtera the plan is to have him back next season.
— John Boruk (@johnborukNBCS) April 26, 2018

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