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Reading Rookie Goaltender Quick Scores Goal, Gets Win, Shutout
Friday, Oct. 26th, 2007
PRINCETON, N.J. - Reading rookie goaltender Jonathan Quick joined Mike Smith in the ECHL record book when he recorded his first win, his first shutout and scored his first goal in the same game, a 3-0 win at Pensacola on Wednesday.
The goal came at 19:25 of the third period when the puck rolled the length of the ice and into the Pensacola net which was empty because goaltender Mike Brodeur had been pulled for an extra attacker. Quick was the last player to touch the puck, so he was credited with the unassisted goal. Ironically on Dec. 5, 2003 at Mississippi, Pensacola goaltender Brian Eklund was credited with a goal when the puck rolled the length of the ice into the goal, which was empty as the result of an upcoming penalty call.
Quick is the ninth goaltender in league history to score a goal and the first since Trevor Koenig of Atlantic City at Wheeling on Mar. 2, 2005.
Selected in the third round (72nd overall) by Los Angeles in the 2005 National Hockey League Entry Draft and under NHL contract to the Kings, the 21-year-old Quick made 32 saves in his second professional start, improving to 1-1-0 with a goals-against average of 1.51 and a save percentage of .942.
Smith, who was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team in 2006-07, registered his first win, first shutout and scored his first goal in his third professional start on Oct. 22, 2002 against Dayton. With Lexington leading 1-0 late in the third period, Dayton dumped the puck behind the net where Smith gained control and flipped it out of the zone. The puck hit in the center faceoff circle and slid untouched into the empty net at 19:04 and Lexington went on to win 2-0. The goal by the then 20-year-old Smith, who is the youngest goaltender to score a goal in a professional game, was featured on ESPN's NHL 2Night.
Corwin Saurdiff of Hampton Roads was the first ECHL goaltender to score a goal on Mar. 18, 1995 against Charlotte. Charlotte's Nick Vitucci, Erie's Olie Sundstrom and South Carolina's Sean Gauthier all accomplished the feat during the 1995-96 season and Toledo's Mark Bernard scored a goal on Mar. 27, 2001 against Johnstown.
The goal came at 19:25 of the third period when the puck rolled the length of the ice and into the Pensacola net which was empty because goaltender Mike Brodeur had been pulled for an extra attacker. Quick was the last player to touch the puck, so he was credited with the unassisted goal. Ironically on Dec. 5, 2003 at Mississippi, Pensacola goaltender Brian Eklund was credited with a goal when the puck rolled the length of the ice into the goal, which was empty as the result of an upcoming penalty call.
Quick is the ninth goaltender in league history to score a goal and the first since Trevor Koenig of Atlantic City at Wheeling on Mar. 2, 2005.
Selected in the third round (72nd overall) by Los Angeles in the 2005 National Hockey League Entry Draft and under NHL contract to the Kings, the 21-year-old Quick made 32 saves in his second professional start, improving to 1-1-0 with a goals-against average of 1.51 and a save percentage of .942.
Smith, who was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team in 2006-07, registered his first win, first shutout and scored his first goal in his third professional start on Oct. 22, 2002 against Dayton. With Lexington leading 1-0 late in the third period, Dayton dumped the puck behind the net where Smith gained control and flipped it out of the zone. The puck hit in the center faceoff circle and slid untouched into the empty net at 19:04 and Lexington went on to win 2-0. The goal by the then 20-year-old Smith, who is the youngest goaltender to score a goal in a professional game, was featured on ESPN's NHL 2Night.
Corwin Saurdiff of Hampton Roads was the first ECHL goaltender to score a goal on Mar. 18, 1995 against Charlotte. Charlotte's Nick Vitucci, Erie's Olie Sundstrom and South Carolina's Sean Gauthier all accomplished the feat during the 1995-96 season and Toledo's Mark Bernard scored a goal on Mar. 27, 2001 against Johnstown.
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