Rangers coach David Quinn has been lamenting almost all season long that he has to figure out a way to get more ice time for 19-year-old rookie Filip Chytil. But as the games kept coming and Chytil kept struggling to get results offensively, Quinn believed he had no choice but to give Chytil less ice time, burying him on the fourth line and chaining him to the bench late in games.
When the Rangers found out Monday that Pavel Buchnevich would miss 4-6 weeks with a broken thumb, that seemed to open the possibility for Quinn to give some of Buchnevich’s ice time to Chytil, but the coach was reluctant to play Chytil, a center, on the wing.