Coach David Quinn has been saying all season that the Rangers have eight defensemen who can play, and, since things went so badly the one time Quinn decided to dress seven of them in the same game, that means – assuming everyone is healthy – two guys who deserve to play are going to be left out of the lineup every game.
For eight of the first 10 games this season, one of those two guys was Tony DeAngelo, the 23-year-old former first round pick whom the Rangers acquired from the Arizona Coyotes as part of the Derek Stepan trade in the summer of 2017.