{"id":365164,"date":"2025-12-23T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365164\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:43:07","slug":"jonathan-quick-playing-better-than-last-season-and-rangers-are-wasting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365164\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Quick playing better than last season and Rangers are wasting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Quick has posted a far better goals-against average this season than he did during his first two years with the Rangers, but the frequency of wins has not come for the veteran backup goalie.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers have scored just six goals in the past five games started by Quick, including <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/sports\/shorthanded-rangers-struggle-mightily-again-in-loss-to-predators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u2019s 2-1 loss<\/a> to the Predators in Nashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Stanley Cup winner has posted a record of just 3-5-1 in nine starts despite a sterling 1.79 GAA. <\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Quick went 29-13-4 with a combined goals-against of 2.87 over 51 appearances during his first two seasons in New York following 16 seasons with the Kings.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Quick, who was unavailable for a couple of weeks recently with a lower-body injury, stopped 30 of 31 shots against the Predators to increase his save percentage for the season to a career-best .937.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37999502\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32-new-york-rangers-makes-117734514.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Quick #32 of the New York Rangers makes the save of a shot from Filip Forsberg #9 of the Nashville Predators in the third period at Bridgestone Arena on December 21, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. \" class=\"wp-image-37999502\"  \/>Jonathan Quick #32 of the New York Rangers makes the save of a shot from Filip Forsberg #9 of the Nashville Predators in the third period at Bridgestone Arena on December 21, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.  NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, Quickie was unbelievable [Sunday night], and it definitely sucks when your goalie is playing like that and you\u2019re not able to get any [goals],\u201d defenseman Braden Schneider said after the game. \u201cSo it\u2019s something that\u2019s disappointing, but we\u2019ll move forward from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team captain J.T. Miller was placed on injured reserve Monday so the Rangers could recall forward Brett Berard from AHL Hartford as roster insurance for Tuesday\u2019s game in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the expert take on the Blueshirts\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Rangers, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers were forced to dress 11 forwards and seven defensemen for Sunday\u2019s loss in Nashville because forwards Gabe Perreault and Matt Rempe were unavailable due to an illness that coach Mike Sullivan described as \u201csomething that\u2019s going through our team right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller is considered week to week with an upper-body injury suffered Saturday against the Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Berard, who had been reassigned to the Wolf Pack last week, has appeared in 11 games for the Blueshirts this season with zero points and six penalty minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Quick has posted a far better goals-against average this season than he did during his first two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11557,4823,385,99],"class_list":["post-365164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-jonathan-quick","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}