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With 4:08 remaining in the third period of the 2009 national championship game and Boston University trailing underdog Miami of Ohio, 3-1, associate head coach David Quinn approached his boss, Jack Parker, and offered a bold and unconventional observation. “The next offensive faceoff, I think we’ve got to pull [goalie Kieran Millan],” Quinn said. Parker […]

NBC’s Mike “Doc” Emrick talks the Golden Knights’ magical run, a different kind of expansion season and his broadcast partners’ cancer fights with The Post’s Justin Terranova. see also Eddie Olczyk loving hockey, Derby grind after cancer fight There were dates and goals that one by one Eddie… Q: Eddie Olczyk (colon) and Pierre McGuire […]

After David Quinn’s name and face had been splayed all over Madison Square Garden’s famous marquee on Seventh Avenue, the newly named coach of the Rangers walked inside to a sea of cameras and reporters — and it quickly became apparent that he was no longer the coach of Boston University. “A little different than […]

David Quinn came into the job as the 35th coach in Rangers history with a couple of important preexisting relationships — but a future reuniting might be the most interesting. When Quinn left Boston University after five years as head coach, he also left 18-year-old winger Brady Tkachuk, whom many believe will be a top-five […]

They were talking about practice at Thursday’s introductory press conference for David Quinn. The 35th coach of the Rangers talked about practice, so did general manager Jeff Gorton, and so did lettermen Kevin Shattenkirk and Kevin Hayes, both of whom are familiar with Quinn’s methods. In fact, they talked about practice so much at the […]

Of course Kevin Shattenkirk remembered the day that David Quinn scratched him as a player for the AHL Lake Erie Monsters, and of course the current Rangers defenseman brought it up when his longtime friend was hired to be the 35th coach in Blueshirts history. “I got scratched, and it was a moment where it […]

USA Hockey’s decision to make John Vanbiesbrouck one of its most prominent faces and forces by hiring the former Rangers (and Islanders and Devils) goaltender as assistant executive director of hockey operations is, at best, a tone-deaf call and, at worst, a willfully ignorant one. Just over a year ago, the patriarchy faced a boycott […]

The new trend in the NHL is to hire a coach directly from behind the bench in college, and it is largely because the league is getting younger. The Rangers embraced that idea, with a roster chock full of college men who now are going to be led by David Quinn, coming right from being […]

This is Gary Bettman’s world and the rest of us are just living in it. The commissioner is master of his domain, the Stanley Cup final his vision come to life. The NHL has conquered Las Vegas, just as Bettman said it would. There may never have been a better first-year expansion operation and experience […]

This has to be one of the most unlikely matchups in Stanley Cup finals history. The expansion Golden Knights have already had the best inaugural season in any professional sport, while the Capitals and Alex Ovechkin have finally gotten out of the second round with The Great 8 now on the verge of the championship […]