{"id":289267,"date":"2025-11-17T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289267\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:06:07","slug":"rangers-coach-mike-sullivan-misses-game-due-to-personal-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289267\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers coach Mike Sullivan misses game due to personal matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e807ac9-f3b7-8e3b-8549-441c1e604c17\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nyr\/new-york-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rangers<\/a> coach Mike Sullivan is missing Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"285ae6e1-8408-88cf-50ad-1a1e7be66658\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-red-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> because of personal reasons, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were provided.<\/p>\n<p>In Sullivan&#8217;s absence, assistants David Quinn and Joe Sacco were set to run the bench against the Red Wings. A team spokesperson said Quinn would speak to reporters at the postgame news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan is in his first season as head coach of the Rangers. Quinn spent three seasons in that role from 2018-21 before being fired.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn coached for two years in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8c0b5061-09c3-2e5c-529b-274a22d1b6bb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/sj\/san-jose-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a> from 2022-24 and worked on Sullivan&#8217;s staff in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"472f7324-d0ab-e645-bce6-a3cd3dcb110d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh<\/a> last season before returning to New York with him. Quinn is also set to serve as an assistant to Sullivan for the United States at the upcoming Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Rangers coach Mike Sullivan is missing Sunday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Red Wings because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-289267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}