MONTREAL — Taking a penalty for too many men on the ice while shorthanded seemed an especially odd thing for the Rangers to do, and given they had so much trouble with those penalties last season, it seemed fair to ask coach David Quinn before Saturday’s game if there was some sort of structural or procedural reason for his team taking that same penalty in Friday’s 4-1 loss to the Senators in Ottawa.
No, the coach said. It was all Pavel Buchnevich’s fault.
“Pavel Buchnevich was apparently not paying attention to what was going on on the ice, and jumped on the ice,’’ an annoyed-sounding Quinn said.