NY Post · Mar 21, 2019
David Quinn hasn’t been able to develop a Rangers’ fourth line
David Quinn (left) Howard SimmonsRegarding the Rangers:
1. We all understand how difficult it is to acquire elite talent absent a pick in the top two or three in the NHL draft, and maybe even without a series of those selections. But it should not be nearly as much of a challenge to create a strong and stable fourth line that plays with a defined purpose.
Yet it has been for David Quinn, who has used the fourth line as a repository for the overflow and a destination for those forwards whom he has found lacking at any given time. That has represented a failure on the part of the first-year coach, who last week said “it is an objective” to create a fourth line with an identity for 2019-20.