On Monday, the Kings moved all star goalie Jonathan Quick to the Long Term Injured Reserved list, making room on the roster to bring defenseman Matt Greene back from injury - and with the way the reserve goalies are playing, Quick can probably be as slow as he wants coming back from a groin injury.
Quick has a Grade-2 groin strain, a particularly distressing malady that makes even light jogging a lesson in pain, so going down into the butterfly in short order to stop a puck traveling 90 miles per hour is pretty much out of the question - so it's a good thing his backups have been better than the real thing.
No? Well, considering the Kings are 8-1-3 since Quick went down in the overtime period in a November 14th overtime loss at Buffalo, the records of Ben Scrivens and Martin Jones have been exemplary.
On the season, Scrivens is 7-2-4 with a save percentage of .943 with a goals against average of 1.56 with three shutouts while Jones is 2-0-0 with a state line of .955 and .097 - before Quick went down he was 10-5-0 with a .905 and 2.35 with one shutout.
In truth, Quick has no employment worries at all, as he is in his first year of a 10 year contract that will pay him an average of over five million dollars per year - an investment as such does not sit by the wayside, unless injured - which mean the wayside is his until right around Christmastime.
Quick recently gave LA Kings Insider Jon Rosen a summary of where he was with the injury and how he's handling having to watch his team battle without him. According to Quick, he's working out and hopeful to start the next phase of his recovery, skating, within the next week.
Obviously you want to get back. You want to play, but you want to do it in the right way, and you don’t want to push it to the point where you end up re-injuring it or doing something that sets you back a little bit. I think so far everything’s gone well. You’ve just got to continue. As tough as it is to watch the team and not be able to play, you’ve just got to keep doing that until you’re ready to go. - Jonathan Quick
To read the full interview, click on the link above.
http://www.sportsinjuryalert.com/2013/12/kings-place-quick-on-ltir-still-on.html
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