I hope Hextall remembers.
This is where Hak is really undercutting him, in the long run.
Including Sam, we've got four first-round guys on ELC's who the coach has chosen to play very "selectively." Even if you agree with how Hak is doing this, burning ELC years for this level of utilization and non-productivity is a terrible waste of what should be one of the Flyers strengths; production from cheap ELC players.
Given Hak's "philosophy" of development, we would have been far better sliding TK's ELC contract last season and Patrick's this season. As it stands now, we're damaging player development in the short term and our cap position in the long term. No bueno.