Quick, Kings show mettle with bounce-back win against Oilers in Game 4

LOS ANGELES --Pedigree was just what the Los Angeles Kings needed to turn back the explosive Edmonton Oilers, who scored a combined 14 goals in the previous two games of the Western Conference First Round.

Enter goalie Jonathan Quick, whose 31 saves helped the Kings to a 4-0 victory in Game 4 on Sunday to even the best-of-7 series 2-2. Game 5 is at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Tuesday (10 p.m. ET; ESPN2, CBC, SN, TVAS, BSSC).
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Therein was the key to the bounce-back in this series after Los Angeles lost 6-0 in Game 2 and 8-2 in Game 3. Quick was pulled from the latter after allowing four goals.
McLellan, a Cup winner as an assistant with the Detroit Red Wings in 2007-08, pointed to Quick, forwards Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown and injured defenseman Drew Doughty, the remaining players from those championship seasons. Doughty is out for the season after wrist surgery and Brown will retire after the conclusion of the Kings' run through the playoffs.
"If you're on the bench, in uniform or even one of the injured or unfortunate that aren't part of the lineup, you should be absorbing every single minute of the ups and downs of the series," McLellan said. "Look around at how certain people handle it because there's four of them. Drew isn't in uniform but they're all carrying themselves a certain way.
"There's a relaxation factor that comes into play when we need it. There's an intensity factor that goes up when we need it and it's not manufactured by the coaching staff. It's not, hey we need to do this. It just comes out. And the last time I saw that I was in Detroit as an assistant coach."

Quick deflected reporters' questions after Game 4 just as deftly as he turned aside the Oilers on Sunday. The 36-year-old said the win was nothing out of the ordinary.
"We played the game that got us to the playoffs," Quick said. "We got pucks deep, forechecked, blocked shots, pucks to the net, rebounds so [if] we play that way, we'll be successful."
He was having none of the idea that this was a personally significant rebound game, cutting off a questioner who asked.
"No more important than any other game," he said.
And in his own way, Quick expressed his faith that the Kings have more of that in them for the rest of this series.
"We've played a lot of good games," he said. "Just because the last two didn't go our way … we've played a lot of games like that.
"[We regroup the] same way you do every game, every single game for the past 15 years. Nothing different."