The Rangers are hiring Jonathan Quick as their director of goaltending development, according to the New York Post, keeping the future Hall of Famer inside the organization after his retirement ended a 19-year NHL career.
Quick will join the player development staff and report to Tanner Glass, the Post reported. The plan is for him to oversee the development of the organization’s goaltenders across all levels, including the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack.
The move lands Quick in a role that fits his résumé about as cleanly as any post-playing transition could. A two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Kings (2012, 2014) and the 2012 Conn Smythe Trophy winner, Quick retired as the all-time wins leader among American-born goaltenders — 401 career victories, a mark that reflects both elite peak performance and remarkable longevity. His .911 career save percentage across nearly 800 appearances doesn’t leap off the page by modern standards, but Quick’s value was always in the timing: his 2012 playoff run, a .946 save percentage across 20 games, remains one of the most dominant postseason goaltending performances on record.
Quick spent his final three seasons with the Rangers, the team he grew up rooting for as a kid in Milford, Connecticut. The signing in 2023 was a homecoming narrative that delivered real value — Quick posted a .911 save percentage across 41 appearances in 2023-24, providing competent backup innings behind Igor Shesterkin while the Rangers won the Presidents’ Trophy. His usage dropped in what became his final season, but the organizational fit was already established.
Now that fit extends off the ice. The director of goaltending development role is distinct from a goaltending coach position — Quick won’t be running the daily on-ice work with the NHL roster. Instead, the Post reports he’ll manage the pipeline, working with prospects in Hartford and elsewhere to shape the next wave of Rangers netminders. It’s a development-track position, one that leverages Quick’s experience across three decades of professional hockey without demanding the grind of an NHL bench assignment.
The reporting structure is worth noting. Quick reports to Glass, the former Rangers forward who now runs player development — not to head coach or the NHL coaching staff directly. That places Quick inside the organizational architecture at a level where he can influence prospects without the day-to-day pressure of NHL results.
The Rangers’ goaltending pipeline has thinned in recent years. Shesterkin remains one of the league’s best, but the organizational depth behind him has been a recurring question. Quick’s arrival gives the development staff a voice that has been in the crease for two Cup runs, a Vezina-caliber peak, and the humbling back end of a long career — the full arc, in other words, that a prospect in Hartford might need to understand.
The Post characterized the hire as Quick “sticking around.” For a franchise that has cycled through goaltending coaches and development personnel in recent years, sticking around might be the more valuable skill.
Sources:
New York Post — Rangers hiring Jonathan Quick as director of goaltending development