EL SEGUNDO — As a goalie, the Kings’ Jonathan Quick is an obstructionist by nature when it comes to goals, but Quick is fine with the NHL’s desire to increase scoring as long as it is done properly.

For Quick, that doesn’t include increasing the size of the nets. Quick gave an unequivocal thumbs-down to that idea Wednesday, but supported the reduction of the size of goalie equipment and, more importantly, urged the league to add staff to help enforce the equipment-size rules.

Quick gave lengthy, passionate answers when asked, in general, about the idea of reduced equipment size:

QUICK: ”I’m on board. I know there’s a coach who came out a couple weeks ago talking about nets. I think that’s ridiculous. If you look around the league at the goalies, in their street clothes and then with their gear on, the difference in size is a little too much. So I’m on board with that. If they’re trying to find a safe way to do that — that’s the key, a safe way — to reduce the size of the equipment, I’m all for it. Obviously if it starts to risk injury and stuff like that, then you have to find a different route to do it. But you can just tell. You look at goalies on the ice and off the ice, and you can just tell that it’s something that can be addressed.

”The easy way is to just make the net bigger, right? The biggest difficulty with gear (size enforcement) is body size and body types. It’s so hard to get a standard on who can what what, and what size everyone is. That’s very difficult. Then, once guys get gear, some guys make changes and adjustments to try to make it look a little bigger. The biggest issue is, there’s one guy, Kay Whitmore, who is the only guy who checks the gear. He’s the only guy I ever see come to the rinks and check gear. At the same time, he’s the guy who has to be at the factory approving the gear that’s getting shipped out, and watching tapes and seeing which goalies look big. Then he has to visit. There’s just way, way too much work for him to have to do in order to keep it in check.

”If you look, there’s been zero fines. I don’t think, since I’ve been in the league, there have been fines for goalie equipment. For sure there’s some, I don’t want to say cheating, but there’s some guys trying to supplement the gear a little bit. That happens around the league. There’s no question about that. To put one guy in charge of all that, it’s too much on his plate. So you’re not getting anywhere.

”The easy way is, all right, let’s just make the nets bigger, because it’s just saying, ‘We don’t give a crap to actually do it the right way and put as many people on the payroll to get it done the right way.’ That’s just the easy way. That’s just, OK, let’s make the nets bigger and let the goalies do whatever they want.’’

(on his equipment not needing to be changed after the most recent rules changes…)

QUICK: “It was pretty much the same gear that I’d been wearing before. So I was fortunate that I didn’t have to adjust to anything new when that happened.’’

(on how many times per season his equipment gets checked…)

QUICK: ”It will be maybe once a year, something like that. It doesn’t happen too often. Like I said, for Kay to be able to try to make his rounds, and he has to be at the (equipment) offices to check the gear that’s getting shipped out, some guys are getting gear once a month. You’ve got a lot of gear coming through his office that he has to make sure meets regulations. In my opinion, I think that’s what it comes down to. It’s just too much work for one guy to do. It’s nothing against Kay. He works hard and he’s doing everything he can do. He’s fighting an uphill battle. It’s tough for him and I feel for him. He’s trying to do everything he can, but he doesn’t get any support. If they want to go the easy way, and they want more goals, the easiest way, the way that you don’t have to put any work or effort into it, is just, OK, let’s make the nets bigger. That’s all it is. If you want to do it the right way and try to police it properly and everything like that, you get more guys to get on the payroll and do the right things and keep everybody in regulation.’’

(on the realities of changing equipment size…)

QUICK: ”It’s a process. There are guys who will say they need certain things for protection, and who’s to say they’re wrong? Everyone kind of plays a little different. Everyone relies on equipment a little different. It’s tough.’’