Column: Kings future means letting go of past and trading legendary goaltender Jonathan Quick
No athlete has defeated time and the indignities the passing years bring — the slower reflexes and longer recovery periods, the eager, young challengers who had your poster on their bedroom wall or grew up watching videos of your technique.Even Quick, a Connecticut native who ranks among the best American goalies to wear the mask and pads of the profession, couldn’t make time stand still. Nor could he even pause it, so he could be part of the Kings’ next championship run.
He was the franchise leader among goalies in games , wins and shutouts , but he couldn’t lift the Kings back to the level he and they had once enjoyed. A man of few words and little regard for anything but winning, he must have hated that.Anze Kopitar scored four goals in regulation and Adrian Kempe had the only score in the shootout as the Kings rallied to beat the Winnipeg Jets 6-5.
There’s little room for sentiment in business or hockey, but there was a breathtaking finality to a report by highly regarded Hockey Night in Canada personality Elliotte Friedman late Tuesday that the Kings were completing a trade that will send Quick and a first-round draft pick to the Columbus Blue Jackets for goaltender Joonas Korpisalo and defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov.
The trade will continue closing the door on the Kings’ most successful era, coming a few weeks after the team had
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