from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

The coach who was hired to develop kids didn’t dress either of his two youngest defensemen and benched one of his top-six kids up front for most of the third period of Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to the Oilers at the Garden in which the Rangers played well enough to lose to a bad team.

Guess what? Ten days and five games into the season, David Quinn is allowed. This is not a sprint but rather a marathon. If in the long run it benefits defenseman Neal Pionk to have watched a second consecutive game, so be it. If Tony DeAngelo did not play well enough in Thursday’s victory over San Jose to merit a third straight game, fine.

And if Pavel Buchnevich continued to struggle to have an impact on the outcome, as he has pretty much since the opener five games ago, then a seat on the bench for the final 8:35 (and all but three shifts worth 1:28) of the third, well, then that’s exactly where No. 89 belonged while Vladislav Namestnikov and Filip Chytil took his place.

Development means more than just throwing players onto the ice.

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