It feels as if we had been doing postmortems on the season months forward of Monday’s breakup day ritual wherein the Rangers tried to type out what had gone so horribly awry this time round.
In fact, that didn’t embrace Peter Laviolette, dismissed as head coach on Saturday after two years on the job the way in which that Gerard Gallant was dismissed in 2023 after two years on the job and the way in which that David Quinn was dismissed after three years on the job in 2021.
“It’s hard not to look at us as players and [ask] why is that happening?” Adam Fox stated. “We appear to have a whole lot of success after which, I don’t know, I don’t suppose at any level we didn’t like Lavvy or thought that his message was not getting by means of, nevertheless it appeared like execution of it was not there.
“We want to be able to come in with a coach who is here for as long as we’re here or even outlasting us because that indicates a lot of success. Whoever is the next coach, it’s on us to make sure there’s sustained success and not just a quick burst.”
