NY Rangers Game 27 Open Thread: Who needs coaches?

Can we just have a normal game? Just as we get news that Adam Fox and Pavel Buchnevich are back, we learn that the entire Rangers coaching staff is sitting this one out. Yup, all of them are in COVID protocol. The Wolf Pack coaches are in tonight, with Chris Drury. You can’t make this up.

Tarmo Reunanen and Julien Gauthier, who had points in Monday’s game, come out tonight. It is a little surprising to see Gauthier out, given his goal, but I’m not going to lose sleep over that.

But let’s be real, coaches aren’t needed. I played college roller hockey with no coaches and did just fine. I mean, we were bad, probably because I was the goalie. But no coaches! We functioned and had proper line…