Ron Hextall Named Penguins GM; Brian Burke Hired as President of Hockey Ops

Aged All-Star goalie Ron Hextall is taking on as overall supervisor of the Pittsburgh Penguins. 

The Penguins announced on Tuesday that Hextall will bear the characteristic beforehand occupied by Jim Rutherford, with Brian Burke being employed as president of hockey operations. 

“Or no longer it is an honor to be becoming a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins—an organization nicely-identified for its excellence on and off the ice,” Hextall said in the announcement. “I look ahead to working with possession, Brian and your complete organization against the last plan of bringing one more Stanley Cup to Pittsburgh.”

Rutherford announced his resignation attributable to non-public causes on Jan. 27. Patrik Allvin took over as duration in-between overall supervisor unless the team chanced on a everlasting change. 

The Penguins on the origin employed Rutherford as their overall supervisor in June 2014. The 71-year-mature won encourage-to-encourage Stanley Cup titles in 2016 and 2017. He won the Jim Gregory Classic Manager of the Year Award for the 2015-16 season. 

Rutherford changed into inducted into the Hockey Hall of Popularity in 2019. 

Hextall played for three utterly different teams in the end of his 13-year playing profession from 1986-99. The 56-year-mature beforehand labored as a overall supervisor for the Philadelphia Flyers from Might possibly possibly maybe maybe 2014 to November 2018. 

Ahead of being employed by the Penguins, Hextall changed into working half-time as an adviser in the Los Angeles Kings entrance office. He won a Stanley Cup as Los Angeles’ assistant overall supervisor in the end of the 2011-12 season. 

The Penguins are currently in fifth area in the East Division with a 5-5-1 file and 11 facets.