Following Alain Vigneault’s dismissal at the conclusion of the 2017-28 campaign, the Rangers hired David Quinn to represent something of a 180° spin in attitude from his predecessor. Vigneault’s more laid back, turn the other cheek approach was replaced with a more hard-nosed, in your face, blue collar-esque attitude that harkened back to the John Tortorella days.
Those all sound like nice platitudes for a team to display. Nobody wants to get pushed around, and anything less than 100% effort out of players is unacceptable. However, Quinn’s brand of hockey has resulted in many more of the negative consequences of those platitudes than the positive attributes.