Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the Kings’ attitude going into the game…) QUICK: “It was just a compete attitude. Everyone competed, from the first faceoff right until the last horn. It’s something that we knew we needed to do, coming in. We knew we needed a big effort against this team. We’ve got to build [...]
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Quick postgame quotes
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. [...]
Quick gets call to finish regular season
After taking last night to think about it, Terry Murray decided to start Jonathan Quick in goal tonight against Anaheim. It will be the first time this season that Quick has started games on back-to-back nights, but Terry Murray decided that the push for fourth or fifth place in the Western Conference is worth starting [...]
Quick or Bernier tonight?
After last night’s game, Terry Murray said he had not yet decided whether to start Jonathan Quick or Jonathan Bernier tonight against Anaheim. The game still has significance for the Kings, given that they can finish anywhere from fourth to eighth, and the Kings will have at least three days between games after tonight. Based [...]
Morning reading: Quick feature
My LAKings.com feature this week takes a look at Jonathan Quick, who has helped the Kings back to the playoffs. The conventional wisdom last season was that Quick wore down late in the season because of overuse. Goalie coach Bill Ranford disagrees. For more on that, and Quick’s thoughts on what he learned from last [...]
Quick might finish it off
As posted earlier, Jonathan Quick will get the start in goal tomorrow night against Anaheim. Terry Murray initially planned to have Quick and Jonathan Bernier split the season-ending, back-to-back, home-and-home series against Anaheim, but as Murray often says about his goalie plans, they’re written in pencil. The Kings are taking seriously the idea of finishing [...]
Quick postgame quotes
Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on his shootout success…) QUICK: “I’ve been getting a lot of help. We have to be up near the top as far as goals scored in the shootout. That goes a long way, especially when we shoot first. Like Zeus tonight, he gets a goal right off the bat and it [...]
Quick chance for redemption
Jonathan Quick spent the second half of last night’s game on the bench, after he allowed four goals on 16 shots, but Terry Murray had no hesitation today in saying that Quick will start tomorrow night’s big game against Phoenix. Quick has not fared particularly well against Phoenix this season, as he has allowed three [...]
Quick postgame quotes
Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on getting two points after allowing the late regulation goal…) QUICK: “Obviously that’s what we’re trying to do every time out. It’s unfortunate, the way we finished up regulation. Obviously we’re trying to make a push, and that’s a team that we want to jump in the standings and try to [...]
Quick postgame quotes
Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the win…) QUICK: “It’s huge, absolutely. You look back, and we got three out of four points against two teams that we’re competing with. Obviously four would be great. Three is not bad, though. So we’ve just got to keep building. We’re doing well. We’re doing all the little things. [...]
Quick postgame quotes
Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the playoff-like feel of the game…) QUICK: “Absolutely. It was a physical game. Both teams played well. We created a lot of opportunities. Ems [Ducks goalie Ray Emery] played really well for them. It was just unfortunate, the way it ended up.” (on whether he got a piece of Perry’s [...]
Goalie situation going according to plan
Jonathan Quick will make his 51st start of the season tonight. After tonight, the Kings have 10 games remaining, including one set of back-to-back games and one two-game road trip, so it’s reasonable to assume that, if things continue as planned, Quick will end up with 59 regular-season starts. That’s exactly where Terry Murray wanted [...]
A lot of Quick work down the stretch
The Kings have 12 games remaining in the regular season, including one set of back-to-back games and one two-game road trip. How many of those games will goalie Jonathan Quick start? Before the season, Terry Murray spoke of his desire to keep Quick’s start total in the high 50s. Quick will start his 50th game [...]
Kings play the numbers game in goal
Will playing the percentages pay off for the Kings? Jonathan Bernier will get the start in goal tomorrow against Nashville, Terry Murray said today, largely because of his previous success against the Predators. Bernier recorded his first NHL shutout in Nashville last March 30, when he stopped 34 shots. Then, on Nov. 6 he stopped [...]
Saturday practice update; Quick in
Jonathan Quick will start in goal tomorrow afternoon against Dallas, and the Kings will stay with the same lineup, meaning Kevin Westgarth is still in and Brad Richardson is still out. The Kings went through roughly an hour-long practice, the start of which was delayed slightly be the end of a youth game at the [...]
Quick postgame quotes
Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) QUICK: “It was a tough one, as a team. We’ve been playing really well on the road here, and we would have liked it to have finished up the way it was going. Unfortunately it hasn’t, so we’ve got to go back, we’ve got to regroup and we’ve [...]
Quick postgame quotes
Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on his shootout success…) QUICK: “Those can go either way, honestly. We’re extremely fortunate as a team this year, the way they’ve been turning out. At the end of the day, it’s two points. That’s all that matters.” (on his poke-check in the shootout…) QUICK: “He kind of had his head [...]
Afternoon reading: no goalie rivalry
My LAKings.com feature for this week takes a look at goalies Jonathan Quick (left) and Jonathan Bernier (right), focusing on the lack of internal rivalry among the two young goalies. Thanks for reading… No rivalry in net
Tuesday practice update; Quick in
Jonathan Quick will start in goal tomorrow against Columbus, and Terry Murray said he’s not expecting to make any lineup changes. Murray also said he hadn’t decided on a goalie for the game against the Rangers. More notes and quotes from practice to come…
Murray still mulling goalie plan
What to do in goal? To finish off this leg of the road trip, the Kings have today and tomorrow off, then play three games in four days: Wednesday at Columbus, Thursday at the New York Rangers and Saturday at the New York Islanders. Typically, it would be a slam-dunk that Jonathan Quick and Jonathan [...]
