It’s a blunt, short, and ultimately true statement. Quinn, for all his talk of development and coaching, has, to this point, failed one of the organization’s brightest prospects. Couple that with the (still correct) decision from his general manager to keep Chytil at the NHL level and lost the ability to slide his ELC one more year, it’s a situation slowly turning into an enormous headache.
Chytil has played in 13 games so far this year, half of which on the fourth line, and a handful of those partnered with Cody McLeod. After a three-game stretch of 11 minutes or left to start the year, Quinn reflected on his own usage of Chytil and admitted he needed to do better.