The 2018 playoffs have featured some bizarre twists, but none are more bizarre than the gaudy stats put up by Quick not adding up to a single playoff win.
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Kings just weren’t good enough in front.
I am ecstatic over Quicky's play but I am bewildered at our lack of scoring. I knew Vegas was solid defensively and excellent offensively, but I think the kings simply failed themselves more than they were shut down by Vegas. I'm probably wrong but it just looks like we couldn't score on an AHL team.
Quick not still playing in the playoffs is a tragedy. What an amazing talent.
Watching Quick laying on the ice after letting in that 2OT goal was heart breaking, just seeing his performance I wanted him to go far. As a Flames fan I was actually really rooting for the Kings to go deep just seeing the performance Quick was putting up.
Jeff Carter and Anze Kopitar are supposed to be the superstars on the team, and they didn't show up this series. Very unfortunate after a good season. They really let Quick down, as well as the fans.
Even if Quick could go down and score, he would still have been shooting against Fleury. In all likelihood, Fleury would have stopped him and then gone down and scored. Because, you know, Vegas reasons.
can we get a matt murray video. he is probably going to pass quick's save percentage tonight and he has won the last 2 Stanley cups, but you're not impressed?
Thank you for this video Shannon it makes me feel better about getting swept idk why
The Kings offense never looked this bad under Sutter. They didn't score the most, but they could generate traffic in front and get the timely goals. It was like a slow strangulation watching the Kings' offense
2010 Blackhawks woooh!!!
if only elliot was that good the pens would be out
Thank you for taking your time and making this video.Always love Quickie.
I just looked at the goalie stats in the playoffs so far. Fleury has been unbelievable but Jones on the Sharks isn't far behind him at 97.0%.
Quick did everything he could to give his team a chance to win unfortunately LA just went ice cold at a horrible time.
I appreciate you covering things like this which often get overlooked.
Quick was great but Vegas still scored on him when they needed to. Fleury was better IMO, 0.65 GAA, .977 (stopped 127 of 120).
I'm the biggest quick fan and all i see is ahahha quick is a baby and he sucks. I never hear anything good about him even when he tries so hard and take the blame on every lose. I'm just mad and embarrassed by my team. Quick deserves an apology and everyone should be giving him steak dinners and free massages daily.
I miss Sutter, Stevens is ass at being a coach.
Kind of puts into perspective how trash the LA offense was, Pittsburgh scored the same amount of goals by the time 15 mins had passed in game 1 vs Philly, as the Kings did over 4+ games.
Craig Anderson last year for Ottawa stood on his head
One stat is not predictive. Multi-dimensional game.
Quick was just fantastic. Game 2 was a nail biter and he earned Mad Respect from me. Both Goalies have been in Beast Mode. What a duel.
Just to add, I think Fleury is playing out of his mind too, because he wants to show everyone who wrote him off as a declining Goaltender. I thought LA was our toughest draw, but I knew it was better to face them now than later.
Can you win the Conn Smythe for a first round sweep loss?
Wild´s
Deven Dubnyk
Agreed. Plain and simple.
Shades of Roman Cechmanek in 2002. Flyers only scored 2 goals in a 5 game series loss to Ottawa.
I felt so bad for him when he lost in double OT.
Is the jersey you are wearing an indo edge or a made in Canada edge?
All the Kings players owe a Quick an apology for their performance. He gave them a chance in all the games, and they pay him back with 3 goals in 275:23 of play.
Seriously looked like a beast out there, AS good as 2012
I agree. Watching this makes me feel a bit better after the loss. All the kings need is better scoring. This year was def an improvement over last.
I think u should do a vid on what the kings should do in the offseason & going forward.
Vegas is a team of destiny this year. Sharks are in trouble.
Kings in 17
Quick was the best player for the Kings this year in the playoffs. The forwards could not score enough goals and that coast them the 2nd round appearance. It's not like Vegas couldn't score either most the games were like 1-0 if you can't score one goal that's pretty bad Vegas got lucky.
The winning margin for the Knights for the entire series was the same as the winning margin for the Boston Bruins in game two.
Over 13 periods were played in this series and one team allowed three and the other seven. It is fantastic when you can average one goal allowed in almost two periods and so the Kings are swept. A movie plot season so far for Las Vegas. Why did they delete Las?
But I don't like the LA Kings.
good perspective! i play goal and am a big quick fan-love his compete level-and some of the "old school" he adds to his style….
I laugh when people say "Quick is overrated"
And it's mind boggling how people out east still think Quick is overrated
Kings are horri-awful…… If they didn't have inhuman goaltending, they could stop convincing themselves they're close to something. I don't even want to say close to winning cause it sounds so ridiculous lol.
I picked the Kings to go to the Finals solely because of Jonathan Quick. Best goalie in the league by far. Fleury is 2nd.
3:48 ohhh this is such an incorrect take it's painful to hear
in the 2011 playoffs Tim Thomas was absolutely pelted with shots. it is unequivocal that Thomas' run was superior when you look at not only the better competition the Bruins had to face, but the amount of shots he faced and the fact that he won THREE game 7s, including a shutout to clinch the conference, then a shutout to clinch the Cup. here's some stats I pulled together:
throughout the '11 playoffs Tim Thomas played 12 (TWELVE!!) games in which he faced at least 35 shots, and he managed to win 11 (ELEVEN!!!) of them, including one of the most dominant goaltending performances ever in a game 2 win against Philadelphia, where he was shelled with 54 shots and saved 52 of them, for a .963 sv%. in the first round against Montreal, every game that the Bruins won in that series Thomas faced at least 36 shots. he had multiple highlight reel saves, with many of his shots faced being grade A chances.
on the other hand Jonathan Quick's 2012 run was not nearly as dominant, in fact there were a total of 10!! games in which Quick faced 25 shots or LESS, in some instances even as low as 19 or 20. Thomas did not have anything even close to that luxury, as the Bruins were not nearly the defensive monster that the Kings were. to top it off, the Kings were only forced to face a Canucks team in its death throes, a Blues team that had yet to prove itself, the COYOTES in the conference finals (enough said there), and a Devils team that was not much of a threat.
yes Thomas' 2011 .940 SV% is .006 points less than Quick's .946, but that does not even come close to giving the full picture. the Bruins were shaky defensively and relied on great goaltending, which they got in spades. Quick was a great goaltender with a dominant team in front of him that was destined for the Cup. Quick had the easier workload, bar none.
Murray is a .948 right now not .929….unless this was made b4 the last game
Insane numbers and got swept. Jonathan Quick should be saying where's the offense?
Difference is that Quick is arguably considered LA's stud player. LA are very much a defense first team. Pittsburgh has studs to boot, Murray basically plays a secondary role in the team build. The point is Murray has to do a lot less for the team than someone like Quick to keep their team in it. You expect Quick to have great stats because the Kings rely on him, in the same way that Pittsburgh rely on offensive overload.
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