Kings goalie Jonathan Quick continues to make progress

Jonathan Quick vs. the calendar: The Kings goalie, who is recovering from wrist surgery in June, is working hard to get ready for the team’s final preseason games in October.

On Thursday, the Kings play the Ducks at Staples Center. Kings Coach Darryl Sutter indicated that he would play “a lot of our young veterans.” That age group includes the likes of defenseman Alec Martinez and Dwight King. Still out of action are defenseman Drew Doughty, center Jarret Stoll and of course, Quick.

“Because I’m late getting on the ice this summer as opposed to other summers, you feel like you have a little more ground to make up,” Quick said on Wednesday after practice. “And you’re trying to get as much accomplished on the ice every day as you can.”

Quick has played a lot of hockey the last three seasons. The Kings have won two of the last three Stanley Cups – playing 64 playoff games in three years, starting with the 2012 run. There was also his U.S. Olympic obligation in Sochi, Russia.

If there is the slightest temptation to reduce his schedule, Quick hasn’t given it much consideration.

“I haven’t put too much thought into that,” he said. “You love playing the games. You never voluntarily say, ‘Yeah, give me the night off.’ The coaching staff has a good feel for their goaltenders and their team and what is best for them.

“They run the ship and we just go to work. That’s about it. They tell me to take a day off, I’ll take a day off. When they tell me I’m going, I’m going.”

Conversation turned to goalie icon Martin Brodeur, who played a staggering 78 games (winning 48) for the New Jersey Devils in the 2006-07 season. Quick said he really didn’t know Brodeur and had a good line when it was suggested that the goalies had a special club and a secret language.

“Well we do kind of have a special club,” Quick said. “But you don’t meet everybody in your club. ... Different chapters is the best way to put it.”

Another injured Kings, Stoll, who is recovering from hip surgery, reiterated that he would like to get in three preseason games, ideally.

This was the first time Stoll had issues with his hip.

“In the Chicago series, I couldn’t walk or anything … had a good limp going on,” he said. “I don’t know when I did it.

“Some mornings I’d wake up and I’d be fine, ‘This is going to be a good day.’ Then you’d get up from your pregame nap and you can hardly walk.”