"I asked Trouba [about Gallant] and his answer was kind of perfunctory, I felt. It wasn't really a glowing endorsement of the coach — let's put it that way."

— @wyshynski on #NYR breakup day "Fox gave a really eloquent answer about how Gallant does a lot of things that we don't get to see in the media and in the public — he's a coach that understands the work-life balance of his players." #NYR

"I don't like this idea that we fire Gallant and everything is better. That's not how this works. Maybe you can do certain things differently but your best players have to be better than that. I thought the game seven was stunning."

— @FriedgeHNIC on #NYR first round postmortem "I understand that when you're a coach you take the blame for a lot of things, but I think what we saw from this series and the reason the #NYR lost it, was a lot more than just the head coach."

"#NYR are not making a change just to go for another veteran coach who's good, affable ... they want a name. A guy who's proven it, who's won it, who's been there. The one guy who's out there is Joel Quenneville."

— @StapeAthletic on Garden Faithful podcast "If I'm picking one guy to move off this #NYR roster, I'm biting the bullet and trying to see what I can get for Lafrenière. I know the regret will be there. I compare it to when Tampa traded Jonathan Drouin ... I wonder if they could even get a first, plus for him right now."

"I think it's fair to say that Lindy Ruff outreached Gerard Gallant. The Devils got better as the series went on and the #NYR just failed to counter that and got worse as the series went on."

— @vzmercogliano on @JeffMarek show "And so now, it seems like it's a real possibility that Gallant could sort of pay for the disappointment. I think we'll get that answer this week. #NYR

"They seemed like they had bottom-six forwards that were bottom-six forwards last year. This year #NYR seemed like they had ... more of a collection of stars and not as many role players."

— @EJHradek_NHL on latest Game Misconduct podcast "...when the boat started to rock after the Devils got back in the series, #NYR didn't have any answers. Kane ... he put up points, but he wasn't a dangerous player, certainly at 5v5. I don't know if anybody on #NYR was a dangerous player at 5v5 as the series started to unwind."

"I think we all know what's going to happen. It sounds like there's going to be a biblical sacrifice here. There's too much noise not to think there isn't going to be a coaching change."

— @FriedgeHNIC on #NYR from latest Jeff Marek Show "You look at the production of the #NYR in this series, I'm not sure any coach survives players like Panarin and Lafrenière having the series that they had."