In the Rangers’ estimation, Filip Chytil is a forward who belongs in the top nine, if not the top six. It just so happened that with the emergence of Brett Howden, they couldn’t find those types of minutes for Chytil while he was still playing center.
So it seems like first-year coach David Quinn is going to be moving the 19-year-old Chytil to the left wing, starting with Tuesday’s Garden match against the Avalanche. After Quinn declared, “I’ve got to get him more ice time” following the 2-1 loss to the Oilers on Saturday afternoon — which dropped the nascent Blueshirts to 1-4-0 — this was the first solution to that problem.