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That may well be. I started the year believing that barring the wheels completely falling off the bus, that he is finishing the year and will be at the helm to start the year next year. I thought that they would be a bubble team for most of the year, which means that the chances of them making the playoffs were just as good as them missing the playoffs. Given the injuries, the DeAngelo situation, the Panarin situation and the fact that Zibanejad has the same amount of points as Ryan Lindgren, they are about where I expected them to be.
Due to covid (no one wants to pay a coach to sit on his ass) and the roster situation (about 20 million in cap tied up in buyouts/dead weight) I expected Quinn to finish the year at the very least. I expect they will give him a fair shot with an actual roster next year and when he falls short he would be replaced mid season or they simply would not renew his contract once it expires at the end of next year.
Quinn was not hired to be a systems coach, he was hired because he has a long history of working with kids at BU and teaching them how to be a pro, and we of course are rebuilding and have a lot of kids coming up. He did a good job with that BU program from 2013-2018. People have been complaining that he's holding the team back since he got hired, they're just apparently clueless as to what he was hired for.
The team caught lightning in a bottle last season with Panarin being an MVP caliber player and Zibanejad having an ungodly year among other things. That set expectations unreasonably high.