Quick traded to Blue Jackets by Kings for Gavrikov, Korpisalo

Jonathan Quick was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets by the Los Angeles Kings for Vladislav Gavrikov and Joonas Korpisalo on Wednesday.

The Blue Jackets also received a conditional first-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft and a third-round selection in the 2024 NHL Draft.
Quick is 11-13-4 with a 3.50 goals-against average, .876 save percentage and one shutout in 31 games (27 starts) this season. The 37-year-old goalie is in the final season of a 10-year contract he signed with the Kings on July 1, 2012, and can become an unrestricted free agent after the season.
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Selected by Los Angeles in the third round (No. 72) of the 2005 NHL Draft, Quick is 370-275-82 with a 2.46 GAA, .911 save percentage and 57 shutouts in 743 regular-season games (731 starts). He is also 49-43 with a 2.31 GAA, .921 save percentage and 10 shutouts in 92 Stanley Cup Playoff games, helping the Kings win the Cup in 2012 and 2014.
Quick was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy voted as most valuable player of the playoffs in 2012. He has also won the William M. Jennings Trophy, which is awarded to the goaltenders who played for the team that allowed the fewest goals, twice (2013-14, 2017-18).
Whether or not Quick plays for the Blue Jackets remains to be seen.
"We've been communicating with him and his agent and we have the utmost respect for him and his career and his accomplishments," Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said. "So we're going to try to do the right thing and we'll stay in touch with him and we've still got plenty of time here. We'll see what happens.
"Come that (3 p.m. trade deadline) time on Friday, whether he is a Blue Jacket or not, we'll make that decision."
A native of Milford, Connecticut, Quick is four wins shy of tying John Vanbiesbrouck for second among United States-born goalies in NHL history. Ryan Miller is first with 391.
"Jonathan Quick is the best goalie to ever play in this organization, let alone in the League, and he's taken us, with a handful of players in the organization, to the highest level in two different times and throughout his career," Kings GM Rob Blake said. "We are so thankful for what he's been able to do for this organization as a player, as a person, him and his family and his kids, we're indebted to what he's been able to do for us.
"Leading up to this, that conversation, I met a few times with Jonathan throughout the season, but I wasn't on the trip there in Winnipeg. I was back here in L.A., so the conversation regarding the trade, unfortunately, had to happen after the game by telephone. It's just the way things worked out. It couldn't wait until the morning to do it in person. That's the way that had to unfold."

Both Gavrikov and Korpisalo were held out of the Blue Jackets' 5-3 win at the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday.
Gavrikov, who was held out for an eighth straight game, is in the final season of a three-year contract he signed with the Blue Jackets on Nov. 5, 2020, and can become an unrestricted free agent after the season. The 27-year-old defenseman has 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in 52 games this season.
Selected by Columbus in the sixth round (No. 159) of the 2015 NHL Draft, Gavrikov has 73 points (15 goals, 58 assists) in 256 regular-season games, and three points (one goal, two assists) in 12 playoff games.
"We tried for months (to agree to a contract), and it wasn't a gap really," Kekalainen said. "It was more about the term and we couldn't agree on it so we had to make this decision."
Korpisalo, 28, is 11-11-3 with a 3.17 GAA and .913 save percentage in 28 games (26 starts) this season. He signed a one-year contract with the Blue Jackets on May 20 and can become an unrestricted free agent after the season.
Selected by Columbus in the third round (No. 62) of the 2012 NHL Draft, Korpisalo is 87-78-24 with a 3.06 GAA, .903 save percentage and three shutouts in 210 regular-season games (190 starts), and 3-5 with a 1.90 GAA, .941 save percentage and two shutouts in nine playoff games.
"He's a very good goaltender and an even better human being, a great teammate," Kekalainen said. "… He deserves all the praise he is getting this year and in the future, whatever his future may look like. We had a great conversation this morning. The situation he's in he's going to welcome the change where he can go play for a playoff team and hopefully go far."
If the Kings qualify for the playoffs, the Blue Jackets will receive the 2023 first-round pick, but if Los Angeles does not reach the postseason, Columbus will instead acquire Los Angeles' second-round picks in the 2023 and 2024 NHL Drafts.
The Kings (34-20-8) are second in the Pacific Division, two points behind the Vegas Golden Knights, who have played one fewer game.
Earlier this season, they loaned Cal Petersen, who is in the first season of a three-year, $15 million contract ($5 million average annual value), to Ontario of the American Hockey League after he cleared waivers. Pheonix Copley, who was recalled from Ontario on Nov. 27, has gone 18-4-2 with a 2.82 GAA with Los Angeles, but has a .899 save percentage in 27 games (26 starts).
"I think Pheonix has done a tremendous job coming in when he did and basically taking over, finding ways to win games to allow us to be competitive, to allow us to be in a position to be able to add to the team," Blake said. "And Vlad, we've been obviously looking over the situation with right-handers, left-handers (on defense), but I think mold of the player, a bigger player (6-foot-3, 221 pounds) who is very solid defensively, can play minutes, can do PK, can check top players, you talk about the West and teams as we go forward here, they all have good players that we rely on checking through a very structured system.
"I think they both come in and they give us some added depth in those different areas on our team."
The Blue Jackets (20-35-6) are last in the NHL.
NHL.com independent correspondent Craig Merz contributed to this report