PHILADELPHIA (AP) ¡ªa full-blown rebuild and a legitimate playoff push Tyler Graovac Jersey Womens , the Philadelphia Flyers fired general manager Ron Hextall on Monday, the latest front-office leader to fail to win the franchise¡¯s first Stanley Cup in 44 years.The Flyers might not be done cleaning house.Coach Dave Hakstol has now lost his biggest backer and his job clearly is in danger. The Flyers have a 10-11-2 record and have lost five of six. They are fresh off a 6-0 loss to Toronto in which an organization once stamped as ¡°Broad Street Bullies¡± played without a penalty.¡°I feel a responsibility for what happened today,¡± Hakstol said. ¡°Nobody feels good about that in our room.¡±Hextall, a popular Flyers goalie in the 1980s and ¡¯90s, was dismissed after 4 ½ seasons on the job in which he tried to revive a depleted farm system and patiently build a championship contender.Flyers President Paul Holmgren thanked Hextall for his ¡°many significant contributions, but it has become clear that we no longer share the same philosophical approach concerning the direction of the team.¡±He added that an immediate change was in the team¡¯s best interests and he hopes to have a new GM ¡°as soon as possible.¡±The Flyers play Tuesday against Ottawa at home where a once-rabid fan base has stayed away from Wells Fargo Center in droves, and the ones that come serenade another listless loss chanting ¡°Fire Hakstol!¡±Holmgren and Comcast Spectacor Chairman and CEO Dave Scott said they will not comment until a Tuesday news conference.The new GM will make the call on the fate of the coaching staff. Former Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup champion coach Joel Quenneville is available after he was fired this season. Former Los Angeles Kings GM Dean Lombardi, who won two Cups, is a former Flyers scout who returned this season to assist the front office.Hakstol ran practice Monday.¡°I¡¯m not looking over my shoulder,¡± he said. ¡°I never have. I never do. I focus on the job at hand and going forward. Those are decisions that aren¡¯t up to me.¡±Hextall played 13 seasons in the NHL and had two stints covering 11 years with the Flyers. He also spent seven seasons as assistant GM with the Los Angeles Kings.His ouster could be tied in to his steadfast support of Hakstol, the coach he hired with no NHL experience out of North Dakota in 2015. The move stunned the NHL and Hextall seemingly staked his career on Hakstol handling the grind of coaching in pressure-packed Philadelphia.The Flyers haven¡¯t won a championship since the Stanley Cups of 1974 and 1975. They have reached the Finals and lost six times over that span.Hextall had wanted to ease off the franchise¡¯s win-now mode that had been a hallmark since the 1970s under late owner Ed Snider. Hextall inherited a salary cap mess from Holmgren Noah Hanifin Jersey Womens , his predecessor, and inherited a talented nucleus of stars that included Claude Giroux, Wayne Simmonds and Jake Voracek.But taking a page from their Wells Fargo Center neighbors, the 76ers, Hextall wanted his own process. That meant patience and building through the draft and restocking a farm system in disarray.Sean Couturier, Shayne Gostisbehere, Travis Konecny, Ivan Provorov and Nolan Patrick, the No. 2 pick of the 2017 draft, are among the youngsters the Flyers counted on Hakstol developing. The Flyers now have roughly $7 million in salary cap space.Philadelphia did make the playoffs twice under Hextall but that seemed more of a quirk than a true step toward contention. The Flyers won 10 straight games in 2016-17 and missed the playoffs; they lost 10 straight last season and made them. The Flyers went 42-26-14 last season.¡°I think the players feel responsible here,¡± said Giroux Brian Gibbons Jersey Womens , the last holdover from the 2010 Eastern Conference champions. ¡°I do believe we have a good team in here. We¡¯re just not getting it done.¡±The poor play of late comes in large part to a goalie carousel that has yet to stop on a true No. 1. The Flyers have Carter Hart pegged as a future star in the minors but tried a stopgap approach this season to give Hart more seasoning. That decision ¡ª like the one to remain loyal to the Giroux-Simmons-Voracek core ¡ª has flopped and Hextall paid the price.¡°I don¡¯t think a lot of guys saw it coming,¡± Giroux said.Holmgren brought back Hextall from Los Angeles in 2013 for a year as an assistant general manager. Hextall¡¯s failure as GM complicates his legacy as one of the franchise¡¯s more popular players. In 1986, he won the Vezina Trophy and helped the Flyers get within one win of the Stanley Cup before losing to Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers on the road in Game 7 in 1987. Hextall was the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as MVP of the playoffs that year.Hextall became the first NHL goalie to score a goal by shooting the puck into the opponent¡¯s empty net. He also became the first goalie to score a goal in the playoffs. Hextall was known for his fiery temper as a player. His attacked Montreal¡¯s Chris Chelios during the 1989 playoffs, sparking a brawl. WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) The Vegas Golden Knights are going to the Stanley Cup Final ¨C with a chip on their shoulder.¡±Everybody on this team has something to prove,¡± Ryan Reaves said. ¡±We call ourselves `The Golden Misfits¡¯ for a reason. We¡¯re doing a good job of proving everybody wrong.¡±Reaves scored the winning goal, Marc-Andre Fleury made 31 saves and the Golden Knights beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Sunday to wrap up the Western Conference final in five games.¡±It¡¯s insane,¡± said defenseman Deryk Engelland, who grabbed the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl after the final buzzer to celebrate with his teammates. ¡±Your goal is always to make the playoffs. But if I were to guess I would be sitting here doing this right now, you would be a little skeptical at the time.¡±Alex Tuch also scored for the Knights. They lost Game 1 in Winnipeg before winning four straight to become the first expansion team since the 1968 St. Louis Blues ¨C when the six initial expansion teams were put alone in the West ¨C to get to the final.¡±It was their time,¡± Winnipeg captain Blake Wheeler said. ¡±They¡¯re just playing really well.¡±Vegas will meet Tampa Bay or Washington in the final. Tampa Bay leads the Eastern final 3-2 Jaroslav Halak Jersey Womens , with Game 6 set for Monday night in Washington.The Knights, whose jaw-dropping inaugural 109-point campaign included a Pacific Division crown, swept Los Angeles in the first round, and knocked out San Jose in six games in the second.¡±All those records and everything, it doesn¡¯t mean anything if you¡¯re not the last team standing,¡± Vegas center Jonathan Marchessault said. ¡±I think we have a lot of gas left.¡±Josh Morrissey scored for the Jets, and Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves.¡±It¡¯s very difficult to find that positive feeling at this moment,¡± Jets coach Paul Maurice said.Reaves, the bruising Winnipeg native acquired from Pittsburgh before to the trade deadline in February, snapped a 1-1 tie with 6:39 left in the second period when he tipped Luca Sbisa¡¯s point shot past Hellebuyck. Reeves last goal before Sunday came 3 1/2 months ago while with Pittsburgh.¡±The guys that weren¡¯t playing, myself included Steven Kampfer Jersey Womens , we stayed ready,¡± Reaves said. ¡±We had fun while we were doing it, but we worked hard so when we were called upon we were ready to go.¡±Fleury stopped 151 of 161 shots in the series, and allowed just six goals the rest of the way after giving up four in the opener.¡±Everybody¡¯s stepping up at different times,¡± Fleury said.Winnipeg got a power play early in the third, but couldn¡¯t muster much of anything. The Knights smothered much of the Jets¡¯ attack for the next 10 minutes, with Hellebuyck having to come up with big stops on William Karlsson and Eric Haula to keep his team within one.The Jets pressed with under 4 minutes to go, with Fleury stopping captain Blake Wheeler on the doorstep, but it wasn¡¯t nearly enough as the Knights closed out their third straight series on the road.The Jets had the NHL¡¯s second-best record with 114 points in the regular season. They advanced to the first conference final in city¡¯s history with a five-game victory over the Minnesota Wild in the opening round before topping the Presidents¡¯ Trophy-winning Nashville Predators in Game 7 on the road.The usual raucous, white-clad crowd at Bell MTS Place were silenced just 5:11 into Game 5 when Tuch jumped on Morrissey¡¯s turnover and fired his sixth past Hellebuyck.The Jets were tentative to start and it got worse after the opener as Vegas dominated the next couple of shifts, forcing some good saves from Hellebuyck before Winnipeg got its feet moving.After being outshot 7-1 in the first 7 minutes Laurent Brossoit Jersey Womens , the Jets finally pushed back and turned the tide with the next nine attempts on goal, culminating with Morrissey making amends for his early gaffe with 2:46 left in the period.Bryan Little won a faceoff in the offensive zone straight back to second-year defenseman, who blasted his first career playoff goal past Fleury¡¯s glove.One of Winnipeg¡¯s downfalls in the series through four games was an inability to maintain momentum. The Knights scored within 1:28 of a Jets¡¯ goal in each of the first four games ¨C a crushing 12 seconds after Winnipeg tied Game 3, and an equally gut-wrenching 43 seconds after the Jets knotted Game 4 ¨C but they managed to take the game to the locker rooms tied 1-1.Both teams had chances in the second period before Reaves made it 2-1, with Jets center Mathieu Perrault just missing on a pass from Little that had too much speed.Right after Reaves scored the second playoff goal of his career ¨C and first since 2015 with St. Louis ¨C Winnipeg¡¯s Nikolaj Ehlers rang a shot off the post on Fleury.NOTES: The Jets were an NHL-best 32-7-2 at home in the regular season, but were a pedestrian 5-4 in the playoffs, including losses in four of their last five post-season outings. ¡­. Winnipeg had won a combined 13 straight at home before dropping a 2-1 decision in Game 4 against Nashville.¡ª