WASHINGTON, D.C. — Assistant coach David Quinn was not behind the Rangers bench Tuesday night against the Capitals due to illness.
The team announced the news roughly an hour before the Blueshirts took the Capital One Arena ice for warmups.
Quinn, who served as the head coach of the Rangers from 2018-21, was not on the ice for morning skate either.
There appears to be an illness running through the team at the moment. It started with Artemi Panarin, who was sidelined for the Rangers’ 2-1 overtime win in St. Louis.
Matt Rempe and Gabe Perreault were both scratched Sunday night in Nashville due to illness as well.
The hope is that it is just whatever is going around the locker room and not something more serious.
Quinn is back in New York to serve on Sullivan’s staff after doing so in Pittsburgh during the 2024-25 season.
The two were teammates at Boston University in 1986-87, after which Quinn was diagnosed with Christmas disease, a rare genetic disorder and a type of hemophilia in which blood doesn’t clot.
