weastern bias
worst team in the league
Quinn is terrible, so is Gallant but that doesn't make Quinn any betterDavid Quinn isn't as bad as you are told he is. He was no worse than Gerard Gallant for the Rangers. Gallant had some better luck with the success of certain key players having great years, so that's why his teams were moderately more successful.
With the Sharks, he didn't do a good job. He's not a good NHL coach. But only two years when you aren't given a roster you can win with is tough. Last year wasn't that bad. They also had the Norris winner. Coaching Karlsson to what he did has to count for something. He's been nowhere near that player recently other than that one season under Quinn. This year he was given a sub-NHL roster. Every single year we hear fans of the team with the worst roster (and also some of the other worst rosters) complain about how bad their coach is. Coaching isn't why they had the worst record in the league. Give them any coach and that's a very bad team.
That year you say "wasn't that bad" the team finished last in wins with a 100 point defenseman and a winger who scored 30 goals before the trade deadline on the roster, in a season where Chicago traded for a tank goalie to internationally make themselves the worst team in the league they couldn't rise above dead last in the most important column
Quinn is even worse than he was advertised to be