Reports: Former Penguins Assistants Joining Sullivan With Rangers

Former Pittsburgh Penguins assistants David Quinn and Ty Hennes are following Mike Sullivan to New York to become Rangers assistants, according reports Thursday by the New York Post and Elliott Friedman of Sportsnet.

Sullivan took the Rangers coaching job last month, days after he and the Penguins parted ways.

For Quinn, it is a return to the team where he was the head coach for three seasons, starting in 2018-19. He then was the head coach for the San Jose Sharks for two seasons before joining long-time friend Sullivan on the Penguins staff.

Quinn, who oversaw the Penguins’ defensemen and power play, was mentioned in some reports as a possible candidate to replace Sullivan with the Penguins, but the Penguins this week hired Dan Muse — himself a former Rangers assistant — as head coach.

Hennes was the Penguins’ conditioning coach before being elevated to assistant coach for the past two seasons.

The other member of Sullivan’s staff in Pittsburgh, Mike Vellucci, this week joined the Chicago Blackhawks as an assistant.

Muse has not yet named any new members of his Penguins staff.