Former Royal Jonathan Quick Becomes First US-Born Goalie to Reach 400 Wins in NHL

Reading, PA - Former Reading Royals' goaltender Jonathan Quick became the first US-born netminder to reach 400 career wins in the National Hockey League on Sunday, February 2nd, 2024 where he backstopped a New York Rangers' 4-2 win with 34 saves at Madison Square Garden against the Vegas Golden Knights.

The milestone comes in Quick's 18th professional season where he has accumulated a 440-312-93 record, 2.59 goals-against average, .912 save-percentage and 66 shutouts across 868 professional career games.

Quick, 39, began his professional career with the Royals in 2007-08 out of college at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 38 games with the Royals, Quick was 23-11-3 with a 2.79 goals against average and a .905 save percentage. He notched a goal, the lone in franchise history and ninth in ECHL history, while earning a shutout in Pensacola on October 24, 2007, in a 3-0 Royals’ win. He became the second goaltender in ECHL history to record his first win, first shutout and score a goal in the same game (Mike Smith was the first with Lexington vs. Dayton on Oct. 26, 2002).

A native of Camden, Connecticut, Quick was called up to Los Angeles from Reading in December of 2007. He made a start against the Buffalo Sabres on December 6, 2007, and earned his first NHL win in an 8-2 Kings’ victory. Quick began the ensuing 2008-09 season with Manchester in the AHL and was recalled to the Kings on December 6, 2008. He recorded his first NHL shutout on December 28, 2008 in Columbus against the Blue Jackets.

Selected 72nd overall by Los Angeles in the 2005 NHL Draft, Quick's accolades, in addition to the 400 win mark, include three Stanley Cup championships, two with Los Angeles (2012 & 2014), and one with Vegas (2023), as well as three NHL All-Star selections (2011-12, 2015-16, 2017-18), two Vezina Trophy finalists honors (2011-12, 2015-16), two Jennings Trophy titles for the fewest goals allowed in an NHL season with a 25 games minimum (2013-14, 2017-18) and the Conn Smythe Trophy as the NHL’s playoff most valuable player in helping Los Angeles capture the organization’s first Stanley Cup in 2012.

Internationally, Quick earned a silver medal with the 2010 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team. He also played on the 2014 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team in Sochi, Russia, where he posted a 3-2-0 record with a .923 save percentage and 2.17 goals-against average.

Prior to his professional career, Quick played two seasons (2005-07) with the University of Massachusetts-Amherst of the Hockey East Association. In 2006-07, he helped UMass to its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance where recorded single-season team records in wins (19), appearances (37), saves (1, 046) and minutes played (2,224). That season, he ranked fifth in the nation with a .929 save percentage.

Quick was inducted into the Royals' Wall of Honor on January 19th, 2013.

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The Reading Royals, proud affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers and Lehigh Valley Phantoms, are in their 23rd season in the ECHL. They won their first Kelly Cup championship in 2013 and have clinched playoff berths in 12 of the previous 14 seasons. They are five-time division champions and were the 2021-22 Eastern Conference champion. The Berks County Convention Center Authority (BCCCA), founded in 1996, owns the Royals and oversees operations at Santander Arena.