I'm not sure Quinn is the issue but I'd be willing to try another coach, however the issues at play here imo are work ethic, getting to dirty areas and using your speed all game. Imo we need a true captain, not one of the "A" 's we have now. Accountability amongst the team never seems to be a thing here. This team has become the good times club, where you do enough to keep your contracts coming but never enough to be a successful team. Kreider is the prime example, like he played amazing for a small stretch here lately because he was skating but why is this not the case every night? It's really noticeable that thats the only change in his game, that he's skating harder. This is a serious issue with so many young players here learning to be nhl players. We rarely put together 60 mins of hockey, there's always a let down for 20 or more of the game, and this isn't just a David Quinn thing, the same thing got AV turfed. The sad thing is we miss Fast, not because of his skill level but because he was the only one, shift in and shift out that played hard, we shouldn't have to miss a guy like him, there should be 20 more in that locker room doing the same thing, but for some reason coming to ny is like winning the lottery, sit back and collect that cash. Outside of Panarin, every big player that comes in usually gets worse by playing in ny. It's too bad we couldn't have signed Chara, i feel a guy like him would straighten a lot of issues with regard to expectations in that locker room.
