Confirmed with Link: David Quinn - New Rangers Coach (Officially official on 5/23)

[haveandare]

he should be honored to work for the New York Rangers. you think coaching an original 6 team in the largest market in the world when you've done F all as a head coach in your career isn't a big deal? it is.

this guy's claim to fame is being the assistant coach of a college hockey champion almost 10 years ago. but 4 years 8 mil from the New York Rangers wasn't enough. he got the money because gorton missed on his first choice. not because he's done anything to earn it.

but what's done is done. I like his offensive strategy at least its not AV hockey. As long as he stops us playing man to man and he rides his best players i'll be content. but this guy has a lot to prove. ALOT.

I agree he should feel honored, but not to the extent that he takes whatever he's offered. A professional can be honored to work somewhere and still need a certain deal to make working there a fit for them.

As someone said a bit back, he wanted the BU job most of his career, now he's leaving it for a semi unknown situation. If this doesn't work out he almost certainly can't just go back to the job he worked his whole life up until now for. I don't really want to get in to what his "claim to fame" might be, but his experience is what it is, and Gorton and co think it's adequate for him to make what he's going to make to coach this team. That's how hiring works. If the boss thinks you've earned something and is willing to give it to you, you've effectively earned it. You can say you disagree, sure, but it's just a fact that he's earned it now because the only person who matters says he has.

Being the head coach of BU isn't "doing F all as a head coach in your career." You've done nothing as a head coach in your career. I've done nothing as a head coach in my career. He's coached a prominent NCAA team and now he's going to be coaching the Rangers. People would probably be more open to your general point if you didn't casually toss out emotional non-facts like that to buoy it.

 

[FultonReed]

dude looks like a brunette Trey Parker

is it October yet?

 

[Bob Richards]

Mark Messier adding Quinn's name to a list he writes in lipstick like Steve Buschemi in Billy Madison

 

[kovazub94]

Quinside Information

All the Quinn's Men

 

[RangerLifer]

From NYR South, I come in peace.

This was a very, very smart hire. You will see a new speed based offense which will take advantage of all those draft choices we sent you (and hope to send you a #1 also). This is a nice change from recycling the same stale thinking which permeates the NHL.

Thanks for your post here and good luck tonight. I hope you destroy the Crapitals.

 

[RangerLifer]

It’s not AV. This is a moment I’ve waited too long for! I hope we actually forecheck and cycle. That’d make me so happy

No more man to man defense. Please, God....

 

[Richard Banger]

Jimmy Vesey or Shatty for Captain now

 

[Inferno]

he should be honored to work for the New York Rangers. you think coaching an original 6 team in the largest market in the world when you've done F all as a head coach in your career isn't a big deal? it is.

this guy's claim to fame is being the assistant coach of a college hockey champion almost 10 years ago. but 4 years 8 mil from the New York Rangers wasn't enough. he got the money because gorton missed on his first choice. not because he's done anything to earn it.

but what's done is done. I like his offensive strategy at least its not AV hockey. As long as he stops us playing man to man and he rides his best players i'll be content. but this guy has a lot to prove. ALOT.

What dollar figure will get you to stop posting this garbage? Seriosuly. I'll start a GoFundMe.

 

[bobbop]

Quintessential choice

 

[Ail]

I wonder if we will ever see a thread where Rangers fans DON'T insult each other just because they disagree on a topic.

Makes me wonder if some of you guys act the same way face to face up in the stands and start a physical fight with your fellow fans because the beer is too warm.

I don't see a lot of Rangers fans in Pennsylvania, but when I do I walk up and kick them square in the balls, and then when they're on the ground writhing in pain, I start reading a printout of my latest hot-takes on HFNYR and tell them not to @ me.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

What dollar figure will get you to stop posting this garbage? Seriosuly. I'll start a GoFundMe.

He should be happy with what ever figure you throw out there.

Negotiations are not a thing.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I said:

"... it doesn't look like he wanted to come here....

Not

He didn't want to be here...

I'll go back to watching cartoons now...

Funny, thank you likes for bringing me back to my post. You didn't say "come" you said "be". So I take it back, you said 100% of what you claimed you didn't.

 

[Kovalev27]

Except I don’t understand when say I disagree with a move management makes and voice that opinion you get 10 guys that come on here crying and insulting me personally because every move management makes is a steal or brilliant.

Guess what this organization messes up ALOT. They have for their entire history. There’s a reason we don’t have ONE star player on the roster. You don’t have finish bottom 5 to acquire star players either. We don’t have one.

There’s a reason we have 2 cups in 75 years.

So excuse me if I don’t cheer lead when they draft a Lias Andersson 7th overall ala manny mahlhotra. Or when they overpay for a no name coach that clearly did not want to come until we backed the brinks truck up in front of his home. We’ve done that before many times and it never has worked. But I’m the idiot for doubting management. A lot of guys here need to take off the rose colored glasses and consider opinions other than their own with some semblance of class manners in speaking to your fellow posters.

Someone actually called me a bigot in another thread for saying buchnevich was a lazy player. They should be embarrassed for that.

Quinn has done zero to be in this spot. I will of course root for him to succeed and I’ve seen and heard him talk he’ll charm the socks off us tomorrow. But make no mistake this guy has ALOT to prove. He’s done nothing at any level to be coach of the New York Rangers. Sorry but not sorry.

 

[Krams]

I really like what I'm hearing out of Dolan lately. I don't think he has a clue re: strategy for hockey, but his willingness undergo this rebuild, his quote today about Quinn, it shows to me that he has developed some ability to delegate and a willingness to trust the brass put in place (at least in hockey, Knicks is probably a different story). Most of his answers most probably come directly from Gorts/Sathers' mouths, but to me it's an acknowledgement that he's somewhat out of his league as far as hockey goes and is flexible to what the better minds suggest.

 

[RangerBlues]

Get ready for a lot of exciting losing for the next few seasons.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

he should be honored to work for the New York Rangers. you think coaching an original 6 team in the largest market in the world when you've done F all as a head coach in your career isn't a big deal? it is.

this guy's claim to fame is being the assistant coach of a college hockey champion almost 10 years ago. but 4 years 8 mil from the New York Rangers wasn't enough. he got the money because gorton missed on his first choice. not because he's done anything to earn it.

but what's done is done. I like his offensive strategy at least its not AV hockey. As long as he stops us playing man to man and he rides his best players i'll be content. but this guy has a lot to prove. ALOT.

He turned down the first offer and he had his reasons for it. See, this is my problem with this way of thinking. The Rangers aren't the once in a lifetime opportunity some fans seem to think it is. There is more in the world of hockey than our team. He did not want to leave Boston and I understand. It's a dream job. He's from Boston.

The other thing is, he isn't overpaid. Looking at the other salaries head coaches get, and taking inflation into account, he is making league average. And compared to other coaches who join the NHL from college, the final offer he accepted is on par with the others.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Jimmy Vesey or Shatty for Captain now

In Hartford? Because he sure as hell has done nothing to earn a letter on the Rangers.

 

[Thirty One]

Or when they overpay for a no name coach that clearly did not want to come until we backed the brinks truck up in front of his home. We’ve done that before many times and it never has worked.

When are these times? Start naming the times this has happened and didn't work.

 

[aufheben]

Take a breather people.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

When are these times? Start naming the times this has happened and didn't work.

It hasn't happened this time either, but hey. Got to stick with those narratives, right?

 

[Tawnos]

No more man to man defense. Please, God....

Like 70% of the league plays man. Maybe not as extreme of a version as AV did, but still it’s most of the league at this point.

 

[Do you want ants]

Except I don’t understand when say I disagree with a move management makes and voice that opinion you get 10 guys that come on here crying and insulting me personally because every move management makes is a steal or brilliant.

Guess what this organization messes up ALOT. They have for their entire history. There’s a reason we don’t have ONE star player on the roster. You don’t have finish bottom 5 to acquire star players either. We don’t have one.

There’s a reason we have 2 cups in 75 years.

So excuse me if I don’t cheer lead when they draft a Lias Andersson 7th overall ala manny mahlhotra. Or when they overpay for a no name coach that clearly did not want to come until we backed the brinks truck up in front of his home. We’ve done that before many times and it never has worked. But I’m the idiot for doubting management. A lot of guys here need to take off the rose colored glasses and consider opinions other than their own with some semblance of class manners in speaking to your fellow posters.

Someone actually called me a bigot in another thread for saying buchnevich was a lazy player. They should be embarrassed for that.

Quinn has done zero to be in this spot. I will of course root for him to succeed and I’ve seen and heard him talk he’ll charm the socks off us tomorrow. But make no mistake this guy has ALOT to prove. He’s done nothing at any level to be coach of the New York Rangers. Sorry but not sorry.

There’s nothing wrong with having a different opinion than other posters.

I personally don’t have a problem with the signing and until the coach’s salary counts against the cap, I won’t care how much we pay any of our coaches.

Would you feel that way about him being named coach if he would have taken the original offer?

 

[RangerBlues]

They paid him a lot to take the heat and abuse of a rebuild.

 

[NYR]

I really like what I'm hearing out of Dolan lately. I don't think he has a clue re: strategy for hockey, but his willingness undergo this rebuild, his quote today about Quinn, it shows to me that he has developed some ability to delegate and a willingness to trust the brass put in place (at least in hockey, Knicks is probably a different story). Most of his answers most probably come directly from Gorts/Sathers' mouths, but to me it's an acknowledgement that he's somewhat out of his league as far as hockey goes and is flexible to what the better minds suggest.

I think Dolan may be a lot smarter than you might think.
He's the best owner in the league IMO

 

[RangerBlues]

Highly paid professional whuppin boy.
Cause this team is gonna be bad.