Nobody likes a phony.
It’s a simple saying that applies to the many careers life has to present. It applies to our everyday lives that witness people presenting themselves as something they’re not. But it also applies to sports and is something the professional athlete can sniff the second they walk into a locker room.
In year two as New York Rangers head coach, David Quinn is already establishing he is not phony. He’s establishing how the David Quinn prototype New York fell in love with and hired a year ago was simply not for show.