alt="LA Kings Insider with Rich Hammond" />Or should that be, new “e-quick-ment”? Never mind. Anyway, I got some questions after Jonathan Quick debuted new goalie gear for the game at Edmonton. Quick said it’s a routine swap and that he will typically go through three sets of goalie pads per season.
Quick’s new pads are a different look, but he said they’re the same specifications. You can check out what Quick’s new pads look like here. Thanks to reader Jake for finding the link.
Quick laughed when I asked if it was a coincidence that he played three consecutive strong games with his new gear. “Good timing, I guess,” he said.
They sort of remind me of the pads worn by Rick Knickle.
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Great company great pads, the only equipment my goalie wears.
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And they’re on sale! Just in time for the Holidays!
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AEG probably wouldn’t get them until they went on sale.
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“e-quick-ment?” Wow. There should be some kind of PUN-ishment for that one! :-)
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i thought he had some new pads. As a goaltender myself i wonder how long it took him to break them in. I bought a new set this summer and even though i’ve played about 15 games i still don t feel comfortable yet with them..
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Yeah 2 minutes!
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Look Rich, I know all journalists want to be the ‘First’ ones out there with things, but ‘E-Quick-Ment’??????? Couldn’t you have left that one for Helene? LOL!
At least John’s new e-QUICK-ment is on sale for a measeley $1,200 bucks on that linked website. Good ‘Ol Cyber-Monday……Man, those pads are the Center-Ice package for 8 YEARS!!!!
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@Buster
man there’s a name…if i remember right Rick had a couple of good games and i actually started thinking that maybe we found our goalie to follow Hrudey…then the ensuing 15yrs happened…
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shakes that was funny.
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Felix the Cat was good. Other than him, yea, it’s been a rough 15 years in goal.
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BUSTER SAID…Rick Knickle…havent thought about him in a while ! triva time…what goalie did the kings have…that was nick named…BLUE LINE
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( hint ) once i heard Bob Miller say ( someone put a leash on him ) strayed from the net all the time
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15 years I don’t know weather to laugh or cry.Goaltendings improving though.
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Pads?…….We dont need no stinking Pads! Now if EE can just get a comfortable pillow for that pine seat we will be in business…
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KF in Dallas.You got me on that one.
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Byron Dafoe had a decent season… too bad our team was garbage at the time…
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Robb Stauber…buster made me think of some of our old goalies when he said Rick Knickle…rob used to crack me up because he was never in the crease….so the nick name blue line stuck….because you swear thats where he wanted to ply…sorry i got off subject.
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The real damage with Dafoe was that once he was gone he became the goallie we always hoped for.
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If i remember right…you guys can help me out here…i think we had Defoe…and fiset…and we chose to go with Fiset…which looked good till the following year…and he just blew it…if i remember right.
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KF in dallas you beat me.I was going to ask if anyone knew who we kept to make him expendable.
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I would have made the same decision. Fiset looked like a stud at the time. He got the bums rush in Colorado/Quebec because Pat Roy was brought in.
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MmMm, purple armor. haha.
@ottothehero keep in mind all the practice time on the ice in addition to games. Not to mention the immense amount of work Quick does in those pads compared to a person playing a game a week.
The fifteen hours of work you’ve put into breaking in your pads is completed in probably three practices for Quick.
=)
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@KF in Dallas… as an added piece of trivia if i’m not mistaken it was XTRA 690’s Jim Rome who gave Stauber the nickname (along with calling Eric Karros “Dude” or was it Mike Piazza?). say what you will about Jim Rome, but he liked hockey…and didn’t like Chris..err.. Jim Everett.
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for an added Robb Stauber Blueline bonus…the move at the very end is epic (and this montage doesn’t even capture his seemingly frequent move of meeting the skater and oftentimes nailing once they entered the zone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLtK5qaCUio
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Yeah, people were complaining on another post about Quick playing “too far out of the net” and could only laugh thinking about Robb Stauber. I can’t click the youtube link at work, but besides the hits does it include the time he skated the puck almost up to the blueline on a breakout?
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shakes,brings back memories.thanks.
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Goalie gear freak in the house. The link is correct graphically, but Quick’s pad is actually the Velocity 3, not the Velocity 2 as shown in the GoalieMonkey link. Us average joes would get upcharged by Vaughn for the “vintage” graphic on the V3 pad. Those are going to look particularly cool with the third jerseys.
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LOL! I totally remember Staubs skating up ice with the puck. I swear I thought he was gonna go all the way with it. Classic! Thanks for that shakes!
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thanks shakes…for some reason i love seeing him play…you never knew what was going to happen
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@ everyone… the funny thing is that more that a few times Rob’s adventures led to some bad goals… a tradition embraced by many-a-King goalie in less dramatic fashion…
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I just remember him getting burned by Hull when he tried to do that takeout move, and he never did it again iirc.
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I couldn’t figure out why they let Huet get away. All he did was come in at the end of the season and play great…and boom, he’s gone and the net is a sieve again for several years, and–Huet ends up an all-star! I thought maybe I was deluding myself but I went back and looked at his numbers with the Kings and after, and they were almost identically awesome. As a side note, I think Bernier should be brought up as the backup so that Quick doesn’t burn out with the workload or get injured before the playoffs. Bernier would be better than Ersburg and it would give him invaluable experience–and Quick and Bernier could share the workload.
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That’s hilarious that someone mentioned Rick Knickle. I use to watch him in San Diego before the Kings picked him up… those do look like his pads… kind of old school lookin.
I loved when Stauber would skate out to the blue line, that was classic! I still remember him punching some dude in the face a bunch of times with his blocker too haha.
Hrudey was my all time favorite King goaltender though.
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