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About This Page: This is a discussion on LA Kings News within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. KINGS SIGN GOALTENDER JEFF ZATKOFF
TO A MULTI-YEAR CONTRACT
KINGS’ THIRD-ROUND CHOICE IN THE 2006 NHL ENTRY DRAFT
AGREES TO A THREE-YEAR ENTRY-LEVEL CONTRACT
LOS
KINGS’ THIRD-ROUND CHOICE IN THE 2006 NHL ENTRY DRAFT
AGREES TO A THREE-YEAR ENTRY-LEVEL CONTRACT
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Kings have agreed to terms on a three-year entry-level contract with goaltender Jeff Zatkoff, Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi announced today. Zatkoff was the club’s third-round selection (74th overall) in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Per club policy, terms of the agreement were not announced.
Zatkoff, 20, recently finished his junior season with Miami University (Ohio) posting a 27-8-1 record with a 1.72 goals-against average, .933 save percentage and three shutouts. His 1.72 goals-against average and .933 save percentage were both ranked first in the CCHA (Central Collegiate Hockey Association) and second nationally. His 27 wins were second in the CCHA and tied for second in the nation. Zatkoff was also named to the CCHA All-Tournament Team last month.
The 6-1, 180-pound native of Detroit was 14-8-3 with a 2.26 goals-against average, .919 save percentage and one shutout in 26 appearances for Miami University during the 2006-07 season. His 2.26 goals-against average was second in the CCHA and 15th nationally. His .919 save percentage was third in the CCHA and 17th in the country. Zatkoff also competed with Team USA at the 2007 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Would Junior Championship in Sweden.
During his three-year tenure at Miami University, Zatkoff went 55-21-5. He was 14-5-1 during his freshman year in 2005-06. In 2004-05, Zatkoff played for the Sioux City Musketeers of the USHL (United States Hockey League), posting a 13-6-3 record with a 2.55 goals-against average and .914 save percentage.
Hello Manchester! Hope that he is the emergency guy behind Bernier and Quick. Quick played well down the stretch and helped the Monarchs earn a playoff birth. Zatkoff can ride the pine for a bit, watch and learn. I do hope he gets in to one of the games against Providence before season end, just to give him a taste.
Zatkoff is WAY out of Quick's league. Zatkoff's only competition is Bernier and even that is a pretty close race.
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Originally Posted by Dominic Lavoie
Hello Manchester! Hope that he is the emergency guy behind Bernier and Quick. Quick played well down the stretch and helped the Monarchs earn a playoff birth. Zatkoff can ride the pine for a bit, watch and learn. I do hope he gets in to one of the games against Providence before season end, just to give him a taste.
Live viewing, international experience, size, family genetics, hockeys future ranking... need anything else?
Maybe I missed something along the way, and I could easily have. I'm not calling you on the carpet so to speak, but what makes you some kind of authority on Zatkoff? I've seen your posts, read what you say...you're pimpin JZ pretty hard there. What's the deal?
The reason I talk him up is because I don't want him to get lost in the shuffle among these other goalies just because he is coming from the NCAA instead the OHL/WHL etc or waited a bit to turn pro. He doesn't get the same hype if he isn't around the John Tavares's of the world as a Bernier would.
I have seen him on TV, I watched live in the development camp(as many of you did), read many stories/accomodations about him. His statistics this year were out of this world. He represented the US at the WJHC. He is sizable, skilled and incredibly poised.
He doesn't deserve to come into this with no fanfare. I just want the fans to get a good look at him before deciding he deserves to be shipped to Ontario just because he is just now turning pro.
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Originally Posted by .308 M1A
Maybe I missed something along the way, and I could easily have. I'm not calling you on the carpet so to speak, but what makes you some kind of authority on Zatkoff? I've seen your posts, read what you say...you're pimpin JZ pretty hard there. What's the deal?
__________________ Jeff Zatkoff's number 1 fan!!!
Last edited by going5hole; April 10th, 2008 at 02:57 PM.
Ironic that in all the fuss over the wunderkind, Quick and Taylor seem to be getting pushed aside. Yet if it weren't for the job they did getting Manchester to the playoffs, there'd be no reason to bring Bernier and Zatkoff to Manchester-- unless the Monarchs needed extra help to clean the locker room.
I guess you are right... they have won the same amount of vezinas and stanley cups so they must be the same.
Damnit, you may be the Zatkoff homer, but you're speaking to the Quick homer....so when you cross that line and dis my homeboy...you gotta drop the gloves.
Quick had a solid, albeit limited, college career for a bad team with little defense. Zatkoff has had a solid college career playing for a good team with a strong defense. There's nothing that distinguishes one from the other in this department.
Quick has had a respectable pro career so far, while Zatkoff is only getting started. Again, not much to distinguish one from the other.
Zatkoff is obviously a good prospect and well thought of, but Quick is no Fukufuji or Brust. He's got a lot of potential of his own.
To say one is out of the other's league is, at this point, a little premature if not meant in jest.
Kings Sign Goaltender Jeff Zatkoff 
.308 M1A
Jeff Zatkoff's number 1 fan!!!