Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts…
(on the game…)
QUICK: “We did a lot of good things out there. They’re a great hockey team, and we were one shot away. We had our chances. Niemi made a few big saves for them and, at the end of the day, they just got one more than we did. So we’ve got to refocus, get ready. It’s in the past at this point. We’ve got to learn from it and win Game 2.”
(on Pavelski’s overtime goal…)
QUICK: “It was kind of like 2-on-2, and Pavelski was coming a little late. I thought I read the play well. I knew that’s where he was going to go. He was going to drive down to the wall and kind of hold up and wait for him to get an angle for a pass to Pavelski.. I got there. He just beat me. He made a pretty good shot. Obviously I wish I had made the save, and we could still be playing.”
Richardson had the win on his stick… I can’t watch that replay again or I might break my TV
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Minnesota Kings Fan Reply:
April 15th, 2011 at 8:55 am
@Niko,
It was a bouncing puck. If you play the game, you know it’s not that easy to bat a bouncing puck, let alone get it to go where you want it to go if you do. Those are the breaks…
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He made the perfect shot. You can’t stop that most times. Great game JQ. Next game we win.
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J. Quick rules. There I said it.
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This is off topic but, Has any Kings fan seen Dustin Penner. I know I’ve been on this guy all night, but we need this guy to show up. I don’t know what it’s going to take, but please if Quck can bounce back the way he did tonight, so can Penner. Quick plays with so much heart that maybe it might rub off on Penner. Quick is our goalie and I believe one of our leaders. Sometimes right when my mind says he still is to young he makes a killer save, I sit in amazement. If we can get something out of Penner we will win this matchup. It is going to take every one of us to play 100% as as far as I could see everybody played with heart tonight. except Penner.
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kingT Reply:
April 14th, 2011 at 11:55 pm
@kinginsaltlake, Great game by EVERYONE except Dustin Penner!!!! Hope he steps up soon, or gets traded for a used puck bag next season!!!!
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robert Reply:
April 15th, 2011 at 7:38 am
@kingT, Thats why Penner is on the 4th line now. If he is not going to step up, thenyou bench him and play Moller. Just my 2 cents
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It’s too bad Simmonds decided he was suddendly a great puck handler and hung out Marty to dry. Just the shift before, Simmonds and his linemates played to their strength and cycled the puck down low.
Also, Quick was in a zone and it took the perfect shot to beat him. I think we might see a breakthrough game for Quickie in this playoffs in which he turns into a combination of Ed Belfour and Patrick Roy and wins a multi-period OT game for the ages! That would be epic and the type of shot in the arm that changes everything!
GKG!
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brian spain Reply:
April 15th, 2011 at 10:24 am
@Fdofmfull, to bad Simmons only bad decision of the night cost the kings a game. he has to get the puck down low and let the line mates get the cycle going. Terry Murry always talks about playing on the right side of the puck, Sharks had 3 guys high, Kings had 2 guys high, that is a get the puck deep situation, not a pass the puck back to a rookie in his first playoffs game move. Come on Simmons play smarter.
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Quick really figured out SJ attacking scheme. The overtime goal really was a mirror image of what the sharks were doing all night. they get two guys driving the net, one with the puck and they will wait for the third guy to follow then pass all the way across the crease to the trailing third man for the shot. the second guy in the middle is almost a bait guy or attention getter trying to get you to think if there is a pass its going to him but again they go to the 3rd trailer. It seriously happened 5-10 times last night and Quickie had it nailed but the last one Pavelski just snapped a perfect shot, not much you can do. Quicky was Awesome!
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CoachTom Reply:
April 15th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
@BrokeKingsFan, Yes Quick did have some great saves indeed…but the second goal cost us the game, yet another bad angle shot gets by him…he misread that play bigtime, he was playing the pass instead of the shooter, Heck I could even see that Coture didnt even have a passing lane and he was going to shoot no matter what…simply because his last shot cost the Sharks a powerplay goal….Quick never attempted to go down in the butterfly, and the puck went between his skates. Very untimely goal…here our boys are working their tails off cycling like crazy, getting shots to the net, forcing turnovers and putting the Sharks back on their heels and then that weak goal negates all of our hard work and momentum shift. These soft goals he keeps letting in is simple, basic, fundamental things he should have learned by Pee Wees, yet game in and game out its the same thing. I am sure we hold the record for goals against within the first 2 minutes of a goal scored, and most of them soft just like last nite, the coach says he gave us a chance to win, and he did indeed, but the weak goals allowed game in and game out will never allow us to run deep in the playoffs, first round and out will be the best we will ever be…Quick is not our savior, he proves that just about every soft goal he lets in…I am tired of holding my breath for 2 minutes after every goal we score…itss getting old bigtime!
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Lavamantis Reply:
April 15th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
@CoachTom, Patric Roy and Martin Brodeur gave up softies, like all goalies every season. It’s part of the game. It’s a bummer when it happens, but the team has to shake it off and keep playing. Quick is one of the best Kings goalies ever and gives us enough to win a cup. He’s certainly at Chris Osgood’s level, and that dude has 2 rings as starting goaltender.
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YoBro Reply:
April 15th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
@CoachTom, Thanks for hitting the nail on the head. However, most folks think that just because he is probably the “best” goalie to play here in a long time, that he’s infallible. I have said, he’s serviceable, but won’t find us a cup. Next, please.
Go Kings
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