It’s not easy for a head coach to juggle the personalities of a locker room and even brilliant tacticians can fail at the human side of management. An insane competitor like Henrik Lundqvist cannot be taking a reduced workload without wanting to scratch his forearm. However, New York Rangers head coach David Quinn is making the right decision between the pipes down the stretch.
At several points during Lundqvist’s brilliant career, New York has brought along a competent young backup. But, with someone so firmly entrenched in the starting job like the Swede, there was never going to truly be a goalie controversy.