EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – A day after yet another too-many-men-on-the-ice penalty helped wipe away a two-goal lead and doom the Rangers to a crushing 4-3 loss Sunday to the struggling Los Angeles Kings, David Quinn went all the way back to basics. He spent a portion of his hour-long practice working on rehearsing line changes.
“It’s the same problem,’’ the coach said before his team hustled to board its charter flight to San Jose for Tuesday’s game against the Sharks. “It’s all been the defensemen – other than the first time, when we had a guy go out to make it 7-on-5, when we had the goalie pulled.