{"id":36609,"date":"2018-10-07T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=36609"},"modified":"2018-10-07T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:24:43","slug":"los-angeles-kings-jonathan-quick-sidelined-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/10\/07\/los-angeles-kings-jonathan-quick-sidelined-with-lower-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings Jonathan Quick Sidelined with Lower-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> announced that goaltender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/q\/quickjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Quick<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined indefinitely with a lower-body injury he sustained at practice on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not good news for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LAKings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LAKings<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CwVSFtV4ct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CwVSFtV4ct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1048994929337425920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Jonathan Quick Injured<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>In the Kings opening game, which was against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>, Quick saved 30 of the 33 shots taken against him. He currently has 2.86 goals against average and a .909 save percentage. Despite his efforts, the Kings fell 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>The 2005 NHL draft pick Quick ultimately made his NHL debut in 2007 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. He has spent his entire 11-year career with the team. The netminder was out for four months in the 2016-17 season after suffering a groin injury on opening night. Quick has garnered a .916 save percentage. He&#8217;s only let 1,236 goals past him, with a 2.28 goals against average overall in 557 games.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>What This Means for the Future<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Head coach<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stevejo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Stevens<\/a> <\/strong>says Quick will undergo further evaluation to determine the extent of his injury. Currently, the netminder is day-to-day. The Kings backup goalie, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/campbja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Campbell<\/a><\/strong>, is expected to start against the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday, as Quick was not on the ice during the teams morning skate. Campbell recently signed a 2-year extension with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Despite only having four starts last season, goaltending coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ranfobi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Ranford<\/a> <\/strong>says Campbell is ready to assume this role with the team. He has a .924 save percentage and a 2.48 goals-against average after going 2-0-2 last season. The Kings have also recalled NHL veteran <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/budajpe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Budaj<\/a> <\/strong>from the AHL Ontario\u00a0and could split ice time with Campbell until Quick returns.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell will have big shoes to fill. He also won the Conn Smythe Trophy during the Kings 2012 season. That was the team&#8217;s won their first ever Stanley Cup title.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/quick-out-until-march-lwoh.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE, CA &#8211; OCTOBER 12: Jonathan Quick #32 of the Los Angeles Kings defends the net against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center on October 12, 2016 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Rocky W. Widner\/NHL\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Kings announced that goaltender Jonathan Quick is sidelined indefinitely with a lower-body injury he sustained at practice on Saturday. Not good news for the #LAKings.https:\/\/t.co\/CwVSFtV4ct &mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) October 7, 2018 Jonathan Quick Injured In the Kings opening game, which was against the San Jose Sharks, Quick saved 30 of the 33 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2818,"featured_media":5878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34],"tags":[369,78,709],"class_list":["post-36609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kings","category-news","tag-jonathan-quick","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-peter-budaj"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}