Hextall Gets Questioned About Buying Out Lehtera Again.

If there's one thing clear this offseason, the majority of Philadelphia Flyers want underperforming forward Jori Lehtera bought out. The Flyers and general manager Ron Hextall never went out of their way to acquire Lehtera, it was a bad contract the team had to take on so that Hextall could land two first round picks for trading away Brayden Schenn. While Lehtera only has one year left with a $4.7million cap hit, buying him out would drag out a cap hit of $1.6million for an extra year. "You can look at every contract, a good one, a bad one. You've got to balance it out," Hextall said. "You have to be under the cap. There's ramifications. You start buying players out that have two, three or four years left on theirs — all of sudden, you're dragging that out."
Regardless of his salary, Hextall believes Lehtera brings more to the team than just stats on the scoresheet. "There's a lot of reasons you don't just buy a guy out because he makes a little bit more than that type of role should make," Hextall said. "Jori was a good role player for us. He's a terrific human being. He works hard. He's really good with our young kids. There's a lot more to it than just saying, �OK, Jori Lehtera was playing center and playing 8-10 minutes.'"
What do you think of Hextall's comments?