Rangers’ Jonathan Quick confirms he’ll play final NHL game Monday night
The sunset of a legendary career is about to take place in Sunrise, Florida.
New York Rangers goaltender Jonathan Quick confirmed that he will be making his final NHL start against the Florida Panthers on Monday.
Jonathan Quick just confirmed it himself. Tonight will be his last game in NHL… #NYR
Jonathan Quick is first #NYR goalie off the ice. My sense is tonight could be his last NHL game.
Quick, 40, will go down as one the greatest American-born goaltenders of all time, and arguably the best big-game goaltender of his era.
Selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the third round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, Quick took over as the team’s starter in the 2008-09 season, posting a 21-18-2 record with a .914 save percentage and 2.48 goals-against average in 44 appearances. The following season, Quick grabbed a greater stranglehold of the Kings’ crease, appearing in 72 games and sporting a 39-24-7 record with a .907 SV% and a 2.54 GAA.
The 2011-12 season is when Quick would blossom from a quality starter to a dominant force. That year, he put up a 35-21-13 record with a .929 SV% and a miniscule 1.95 GAA, finishing fifth in voting for the Hart Trophy and second behind the Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist for the Vezina Trophy. Then, in the postseason, Quick turned in the best stretch of goaltending in his career. Los Angeles snuck into the playoffs as the eighth seed in the Western Conference, and rode the brilliance of Quick to the franchise’s first Stanley Cup championship. During that postseason, Quick went 16-4 with .946 SV% and a 1.41 GAA, earning himself the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
The Milford, Connecticut native won his second Stanley Cup with the Kings in 2014. He went on the play 14-plus full seasons in Los Angeles before a brief stint with the Vegas Golden Knights and then ultimately ending up in New York.
With 410 career wins, Quick will retire as the all-time winningest American-born goaltender.