# Reverse Sweep

So yeah...the Kings came back from a 0-2 hole to win four games in a row and boot the St. Louis Blues out of the 1st round on Saturday night.

The Quick And The Rich

They can't make the deal official until July 1, but the LA Kings - pardon me, the 2012 Stanley Cup Champion LA Kings have agreed to contract terms with goaltender stud Jonathan Quick.  Fuck. Yes!

GM Machiavelli Dean Lombardi announced the 10 year contract extension today, which will kick in after the upcoming season, and will be a generous pay raise from the $1.8 he's currently making - reportedly worth $58 million.  Quick won the Conn Smythe (playoff MVP) this year, and basically carried the team to and through the playoffs.  Not bad for the 26-year-old who was the 72nd overall (third round) draft pick in 2005.  His 2011-2012 season was record setting for the team, and he dominated the NHL: a league leading 10 shutouts, second in goals-against average with 1.95 - or first among goalies who played more than 40 games, tied for fifth with 35 wins and a .929 save percentage (.929) - quite a feat for playing 69 games.

Quick was even better during the 2012 Playoffs - in 20 games Quick compiled 16 wins while leading all playoff goaltenders with a 1.41 goals-against average and a .946 save percentage (3rd best all-time for goalies with at least 10 games played), and a trio of shutouts.  After surviving the awful Cechmanek / Cloutier era, knowing Quick is locked up until 2023 is comforting.  This also means backup goaltender Jonathan Bernier is not long for this world team and will likely be tradebait as he too has a year left on his contract, though it is uncertain when he could be moved.

Now, enjoy the franchise records set by Quick:

ALL-TIME KINGS RECORDS:

• GAA (2.30)

• Save Percentage (.916)

• Win Streak (nine, Jan. 21-Feb. 6, 2010)

• Shutout Streak (three, Oct. 18-22, 2011)

• Scoreless Streak (202:11 third period Oct. 15, 2011 through first period Oct. 22, 2011)

SINGLE-SEASON KINGS RECORDS

• Games Played (72 in 2009-10)

• Wins (39 in 2009-10) GAA (1.95 in 2011-12)

• Save Percentage (.929 in 2011-12)

• Minutes Played (4,258 in 2009-10)

• Shutouts (10 in 2011-12)

• Home Shutouts (seven in 2011-12)

• Road Shutouts (four in 2008-09 and 2010-11)

• Rookie GAA (2.48 in 2008-09 – tied by Jonathan Bernier in 2010-11)

• Rookie Shutouts (four in 2008-09 – tied with Jamie Storr in 1998-99, Mario Lessard in 1978-79 and Gerry Desjardins in 1968-69)

• Shootout Wins (10 in 2010-11)

• Shootout Save Percentage (.818 in 2010-11)

• Shootout Win Percentage (1.000 in 2010-11: 10-0)

OTHER KINGS GOALTENDING RECORDS

• First with 30 wins three straight seasons (2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12)

• First with three road shutouts in one month (Dec. 2010)

• Most saves in a shutout (51, Dec. 13, 2010 at DET, 5-0 Win)

• Fastest to 20 wins in one season (36th team game in 2009-10)

• Fastest to 30 wins in one season (54th team game in 2009-10)

• Fastest to 100 wins (185th career game)

ALL-TIME KINGS PLAYOFF RECORDS:

• GAA (2.12)

• Save Percentage (.926)

• Shutouts (4)

• Win Streak (eight, April 22-May 17, 2012)

• Road Win Streak – cumulative (12, April 16, 2011 – June 2, 2012 – NHL record)

ALL-TIME KINGS PLAYOFF SINGLE-SEASON RECORDS

• Games Played (20 in 2012 – tied with Kelly Hrudey in 1993)

• Wins (16 in 2012) GAA (1.41 in 2012)

• Save Percentage (.946 in 2012 – tied NHL record for goalies with at least 10GP)

• Shutouts (3 in 2012)

• Road Wins (10 – tied NHL record)

• Home Win Streak (3, May 3-May 17, 2012 – tied club record)

• Road Win Streak – one year (10, April 11-June 2, 2012 – NHL record)

OTHER KINGS PLAYOFF GOALTENDING RECORDS:

• Most shots faced, regulation game (52, April 23, 2011 at SJ, 3-1 Win)

• Most saves, regulation game (51, April 23, 2011 at SJ, 3-1 Win)

• Most shots faced, one period (23, April 13, 2012 at VAN, 4-2 Win) Most saves, one period (22, Apr. 13, 2012 at VAN, 4-2 Win)

NHL AWARDS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Conn Smythe Trophy in 2012 NHL

• Second-Team All-Star in 2012 NHL All-Star in 2012

• Vezina Trophy Finalist in 2012

• NHL Star of the Week (Eight Times: No. 1 three times, No. 2 two times, No. 3 three times)

KINGS AWARDS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Kings MVP (Bill Libby Memorial Award) in 2011-12

• Kings Best Defensive Player in 2011-12

• Kings Most Inspirational Player (Ace Bailey Memorial Award) in 2011-12

• Most Popular Player in 2011-12

Weekend Edition

Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...

20 • Radiohead Drum Technician Killed In Stage Collapse - Say what you will about their music, but their stage show is really avant-garde.

19 • Microsoft Surface Is Hiding A Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard, Multitouch Trackpad And Kickstand - To be an iPad killer, you have to think different.

18 • Who Is Rodney King? Who Is Dick Clark? The Titanic Was Real? How Death, Major News Events Expose Twitter’s Generation Gap - Translation: stupid, uninformed kids know nothing of their history or culture.  140 characters is not a Twitter limit, but their mental processing cap.

17 • 13 Tech Sounds You Don’t Hear Anymore - Don't tell those Twitter kids, because they won't recognize these. 

16 • Feds Bust Russian Prostitution Ring In L.A. - It would have been higher if the story was they  helped open one.

15 • Jack Osbourne Says He Has Multiple Sclerosis - Karma couldn't tell the different between one television reality family and another?  Look out Kardashians...

14 •  It Takes A Hell Of A Lot More Water Than You Think To Make Jeans, Burgers, Pizza And Other Stuff - And surprisingly, the main ingredient in all those is not water.

13 • Roger Clemens Acquitted On All Charges - Justice really struck out at the plate this time.

12 • LA Kings Stanley Cup 2012 Celebration / Construction Of A Championship Team - Besides enjoying the awesome victory from last week from almost inside the celebration, the LA Kings Insider shows how the team that won the Stanley Cup came together.

11 • Infinite Schwarzenegger Gear Up Scene - When killing thousands, it takes a while to get ready...

10 • Sex Toy Fools Entire Chinese Village / Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Vagina Panties - Both of these are horrible...Asia should be ashamed.

09 • Headless Corpses Found In Paris Picnic Spot - Ahh, still a city of charm and romance!

08 • Students Left In ‘Mass Hypnosis’ After Demonstration Goes Awry - They made the mistake of not having them pay for next semester's tuition first before putting them in a trance.

07 • Lancaster Boy, 7, Found Hanging By Karate Belt In Backyard - Clearly, he did not pass his test and earn his belt.

06 • Gene Simmons Themed VW Bug For Sale On Craigslist - You may never want to drive it, but there's nothing wrong with looking at it.

05 • Man Goes On $1.5 Million Gambling Spree, After ATM Glitch Allows Him Unlimited Withdrawals - It should have been corrected to say $1.5 million losing spree.

04 • Displays Might One Day Be Made of Just Air And Water - Does that mean View Sonic may one day be bought by Evian?

03 • Baby Soaps And Shampoos Trigger Positive Marijuana Tests - That's what happens when you use Cheech & Chong rather than Johnson & Johnson.

02 • The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings / 40 More Of The Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings - If you're not convinced he's the worst artist of a generation after 80 drawings, you're either blind or Rob Liefeld.

01 • Burritobot: A 3-D Printer That Spits Out Burritos - Food and technology, together...perfectly.

1, 2, 3, 4 = 6-0 On The Road