Don’t bench Quincey

The Denver Post, John Leyba While I think Joe Sacco is a very good coach and will stay that way for a long time, I just have to respectfully disagree with his decision lately to bench Kyle Quincey. Sacco said last night Quincey needs to get back to playing an assertive, aggressive game. Was he really that bad though, to warrant being a healthy scratch? Look, I know the Avs have seven healthy D-men right now (eight, when Ruslan Salei comes back, probably some time next week), so somebody has to sit. But count me as one who believes Quincey is one of the team’s top six D-men and should be out there. I’m not going to sit and dump on other D-men here, by comparison. This is more about me saying Quincey has too much talent to be sitting. Quincey has been a minus-2 in the last six games he’s played, but, geez, John Liles was a minus-2 the other night against Vancouver and played the next night. Quincey is the team leader in ice time per game (24:13) and fifth on the team...