Alec Martinez has known Jonathan Quick for 15 years. The two were roommates on road trips during their days in the American Hockey League in 2008. They lifted the Stanley Cup together as Kings in 2012, when Quick won the Conn Smythe Trophy, and again in 2014, when Martinez scored the Cup-clinching double-overtime goal.
They hadn’t been teammates since the Kings traded Martinez to the Golden Knights in February 2020. That is, until Vegas traded for Quick ahead of Friday’s trade deadline. Martinez said that after the news broke, he got a text message from Quick’s wife, Jaclyn, with a video of Jonathan and Jaclyn’s youngest son, Cashton, jumping up and down chanting “Vegas!”
Martinez smiled and joked in his distinguished sarcastic tone, “Rumor has it Quicky was doing the same thing.”
Quick may not have actually been jumping up and down, but at the end of an emotional 48 hours, in which he was traded by the only NHL franchise he’d ever known, he was excited to join a playoff contender that was close to home. After 16 seasons in Los Angeles, changing teams wasn’t easy.
“There were a ton of emotions, obviously, considering how much time my family and I spent there,” Quick said Friday after his first practice in Las Vegas. “At the end of the day, they made a…
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