Jonathan Quick provides Rangers with special leadership despite backup role
NY Post
The Rangers piled into the locker room at Madison Square Garden after 80 minutes of play in Game 2 of their second-round series against the Hurricanes.
Some players tried to hydrate. Others went for some nourishment. Nobody said much.
Just before the Rangers went back on the ice for the second overtime period, Jonathan Quick — dressed in full goalie equipment that hasn’t seen game action since April 11 — stood up.
“And he just kind of gave us a pat on the ass,” Vincent Trocheck told The Post on Tuesday, two weeks after the 30-year-old forward scored the game-winner to end that double-OT thriller and allow for the Rangers to be where they are now, in the Eastern Conference Final against the Panthers.
It was far from the first time, and probably far from the last time, that Quick said exactly what the Blueshirts needed to hear at that exact moment.
The future Hall of Fame netminder has been a pillar of support in the locker room in more ways than one.
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