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32

Jonathan Quick

New York Rangers Goaltender

Seven hundred and eighty games, 393 wins, 60 shutouts, and an 18-6-2 at 38.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2007-08LAK312093.84062.855
2008-09LAK44211821032.4841200.914
2009-10LAK72392471802.5441927.907
2010-11LAK61352231342.2461631.918
2011-12LAK693521131331.95101863.929
2012-13LAK3718134872.451889.902
2013-14LAK49271741002.0761183.915
2014-15LAK723622131562.2461896.918
2015-16LAK68402351492.2251820.918
2016-17LAK17852352.262421.917
2017-18LAK64332831472.4051867.921
2018-19LAK46162371493.3821329.888
2019-20LAK42162241172.7911224.904
2020-21LAK221192582.862566.897
2021-22LAK46231391162.5921284.910
2022-23LAK/VGK41161561273.4121080.882
2023-24NYR271862692.622771.910
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—7803932838618692.476021013.911

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

27 games, 18-6-2, a .9105 save percentage and a 2.62 goals-against average with 2 shutouts on 771 shots faced.

An 18-6-2 record at 38, against a career .9111 across 780 games. The record is the club as much as the goaltender and the save percentage is exactly what he has always been.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 219 and plays a deep, square game now, which is not remotely how he played at 25.

Sixty career shutouts in 780 games. The athleticism that made him famous has gone and the positioning has replaced it. He handles the puck as well as any goaltender of his generation and still leaves the net to do it.

The Mental Game

Rebound control has never been the strength; the style was always to make the first save spectacularly and worry about the rest afterwards.

He tracks through traffic well and has done for seventeen seasons. Twenty-seven games a year at 38 is the arrangement and he has not complained about it.

The Intangibles

A third-round pick in 2005 out of Milford, Connecticut, seventeen seasons across four organisations, 780 games, 393 wins and 60 shutouts at a career .9111. He won two Stanley Cups in Los Angeles and a Conn Smythe.

He is 38 and won eighteen of twenty-seven. Three hundred and ninety-three wins is among the largest totals any American goaltender has managed, and this is the last part of it.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • plays-deepa strength· takes the net away by occupying it

    “He is 6-1 and 219 and plays a deep, square game now, which is not remotely how he played at 25.”

  • plays-aggressivehe lacks it· meets the shooter at the top of the crease

    “He is 6-1 and 219 and plays a deep, square game now, which is not remotely how he played at 25.”

  • puck-handlinga strength· starts the breakout himself

    “He handles the puck as well as any goaltender of his generation and still leaves the net to do it.”

  • rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up

    “Rebound control has never been the strength; the style was always to make the first save spectacularly and worry about the rest afterwards.”

  • tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen

    “He tracks through traffic well and has done for seventeen seasons.”