AHL Manchester Monarchs

Two Former Monarchs Ink Contract Extensions With Kings

Published on October 23, 2009 under American Hockey League (AHL)
Manchester Monarchs News Release


LOS ANGELES, CA - The Los Angeles Kings, the parent club of the Manchester Monarchs, have signed defenseman Davis Drewiske and goaltender Jonathan Quick to three-year contact extensions, Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi announced today.

Drewiske, 24, is in his second NHL/Kings season and he's appeared in all 10 Kings' games this season, recording three points (1-23), 10 penalty minutes and a team-leading plus-6 rating. He also ranks third on the Kings with 15 blocked shots. The 6-foot-2, 222-pound native of Hudson, Wis., notched his first career NHL/Kings goal vs. San Jose on Oct. 6.

Drewiske made his Kings/NHL debut last season and appeared in 17 contests. He recorded three points (all assists) and 18 penalty minutes. He also last season played in 61 games with the Monarchs. With the Monarchs, he ranked second among all team defensemen with 14 points (1-1314) and also that season was named Manchester's American Specialty/AHL Man of the Year for his contributions to the community and to charitable organizations.

Drewiske, who is in the last year of his current contract, made his pro debut with the Monarchs in 2007-08 after playing his college hockey at the University of Wisconsin, where he served as team captain.

Drewiske signed with the Kings as an unrestricted free agent on April 1, 2008.

Quick, 23, is in his third NHL/Kings season and he's started nine of the Kings' first 10 games this season. He's also started 50 of the last 60 Kings' games dating back to last season and he was named the NHL's Second Star of the Week for the week ending on Oct. 11 after posting a record of 3-0-0 while stopping 80 of 88 shots against in victories over San Jose (Oct. 6), Minnesota (Oct. 8) and St. Louis (Oct. 10).

Quick, a 6-foot-1, 223-pound native of Milford, Conn., is tied for second in the NHL this season with six wins. In addition, he ranks third in the league with 538:53 minutes played and seventh with 225 saves. Quick also has a 3.01 goals-against-average and a save percentage of .893.

Quick last season led the Kings and ranked third among NHL rookie goaltenders with 21 wins, a 2.48 goals-against average, a .914 save percentage, four shutouts, 44 appearances and 1,097 saves. His 21 wins were the third most ever recorded by a Kings' rookie goaltender (Mario Lessard had 23 in 1978-79 and Bob Janecyk had 22 in 1984-85). Quick also went 4-1 in shootouts (he stopped 10 of 14 shots, 71 percent) and 3-0 in shootouts on the road last season. He started 41 of the final 50 Kings' games in 2008-09 after being recalled from Manchester (American Hockey League) on Dec 16, 2008.

Quick recorded his fourth career shutout on March 26, 2009 at Dallas, stopping all 29 shots in a 1-0 shootout win, and his fourth shutout tied a Kings rookie single-season record (the three other rookie netminders to have four shutouts in one season are Jamie Storr in 1998-99, Lessard in 1978-79 and Gerry Desjardins in 1968-69). All four of Quick's shutouts came on the road, which is a franchise record. Quick stopped a career-high 41 shots in 5-4 win on Feb. 5, 2009 at Washington and he recorded his first career shutout on Dec. 23, 2008 at Columbus, stopping all 24 shots in a 3-0 win (sixth career NHL game and fourth career NHL start).

Originally selected by the Kings in the third-round (72nd overall) in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, Quick made his NHL/Kings debut in 2007-08 and he recorded his first NHL win in his debut on Dec. 6, 2007 vs. Buffalo. He appeared in three Kings' games that season, going 1-2-0 with a 3.83 goals-against-average and a save percentage of .855.

Quick, who was in the final year of his current contract, attended Team USA's Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Orientation Camp this past summer (Aug. 17-19).

The Monarchs host the Bridgeport Sound Tigers at the Verizon Wireless Arena in a 7:30 p.m. match-up on Friday, October 23. Catch all of the play-by-play action of Monarchs hockey with Ken Cail on the Monarchs Radio Network WGAM 900/1250 AM and at www.manchestermonarchs.com.

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