Mysterious drama emerges from Golden Knights’ room in first-round series

The Vegas Golden Knights need to explain this.

On Thursday, it was pointed out and confirmed by many insiders and pundits that goalie Jonathan Quick was a healthy scratch for Game 2 of the first round series against the Winnipeg Jets.

This only adds to the drama already surrounding Quick, who was traded from the Los Angeles Kings prior to the deadline in March in a messy transaction. It came to a sad ending for Quick in LA as he was traded, along with a conditional 2023 first-round draft pick and a third-round pick in 2024 to the Columbus Blue Jackets for goaltender Joonas Korpisalo and defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov. The Blue Jackets, clearly aware that Quick didn’t want to compete for a non-contender, was then shipped to Vegas a day later.

Where he know watches the postseason action from the press box…

No one can report what is going on between Quick and the Golden Knights, though the veteran goalie didn’t put up great numbers in the last stretch of the season. He played 10 games and recorded a subpar 3.13 goal-against average and a .901 save percentage. He last played on April 8 against the Dallas Stars and lost in the shootout.

Quick was heartbroken over the trade our of Los Angeles and admitted that he felt disrespected by the club that selected him in 2005 and where he won two Stanley Cup championships in 2012 and 2014.

And as of right now, he is not part of the lineup that could get to another one, this time in Vegas.

The Golden Knights have tied the series at 1-1 against the Jets with Laurent Brossoit in between the pipes and it’d be surprising to see a change ahead of Game 3 on Saturday in Winnipeg.

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