Rangers head coach David Quinn at practice on July 17, 2020. Credit: Nick Homler/NY Rangers/Nick Homler
The allure of David Quinn, when the Rangers hired him away from Boston University to be their head coach in the summer of 2018, was that the organization saw him as the perfect guy to mold and guide their young roster as the team began its rebuild.
A year after Quinn was hired, the tenor of the rebuild shifted, as GM Jeff Gorton began to acquire pieces for the present, rather than the future — pieces like defensemen Adam Fox and Jacob Trouba, and free agent forward Artemi Panarin.