In Chicago, Jonathan Quick made 32 saves to earn his 41st career NHL shutout in a 5-0 win over the Blackhawks Monday night.
The feat pushed him past Frank Brimsek and John Vanbiesbrouck for the most shutouts by a US-born goalie.
Jonathan Quick picked up 41st career NHL shutout in win over Chicago – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
“It was a lot tougher for [Vanbiesbrouck] to get shutouts when he was playing,” said Quick, who grew up a Vanbiesbrouck fan in Milford, Conn. “It’s a situation where it’s cool. It’s a team effort, too, to get a shutout. You’re thankful to all your teammates over the years, but at the same time, I think his shutouts are probably worth two of mine. So, take it with a grain of salt.”
Kris Versteeg, Milan Lucic, Vincent Lecavalier, Dustin Brown and Tyler Toffoli scored for the Kings.
“We try to play them physical,” Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said. “They’re not a very physical team. They’re kind of a skilled team, I guess you could say, so that’s what we tried to do … just play them physical and not give them a lot of room, especially those top guys.”
The Hawks have lost three straight and are now 1-3-1 in their five and face the Dallas Stars Tuesday night.
“You go on stretches where you win 12 in a row, and [now] we got this little stretch going right now,” Patrick Kane said. “Obviously, we want to shore that up before [the Stanley Cup Playoffs] and make sure we’re going in there feeling consistent about our game.”
The Versteeg and Lucic goals were the early daggers for Chicago who had built momentum off a power play advantage. But the two goals were scored as the penalty was killed and came just 18 seconds apart to take the win out of the arena and Hawks bench.
“That was big for us,” Doughty said. “From that point on, you kind of could feel that we were going to win that game. They were getting opportunities and stuff like that, but we felt like we were in control from that point.”
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