What Happened To Carey Price?

Whatever happened to the Montreal Canadiens legendary goalie Carey Price? One of the best goalies for the Canadiens. Suddenly left the league without ever winning the Stanley Cup. Should he be considered into the NHL's Hall Of Fame? Was Carey Price even good? Will the NHL ever be the same?

[@hockeyislife7686]

Carey’s what brought me into hockey, he made me want to play hockey, he’s the reason my parents bought my first hockey net and road hockey pads. Although I never met Carey I wanna thank him for changing my life

[@SimRacingVeteran]

I named my dog Price because of Carey.

[@tennisbrodeur]

same here !!

[@MrBigtime2]

I will never forgive Chris Kreider 😤

[@patlaffey4687]

i love him

[@MrBigtime2]

@@patlaffey4687 🌈👍

[@joshb6470]

And it keeps him awake at night.....

[@ethanparker7900]

Price is absolutely going to the hall first ballot. Not having cups won't mitigate chances at all cause cups are team awards and this is an individual player. And at least he got to go to a Stanley Cup Final. Even just being the runner up is astonishing especially if it is an 8th seed like the habs in 2021. But anyway, he does have many other things to make up for it like Vezina, Hart, Jennings and Ted Lindsay trophies along with an olympic gold medal and most wins in canadiens history

[@appletile2887]

Two years of consistent play at high level out of a 15 year career does not make for a career. He was hot and cold all through his career, where the media called him....Regular season Price.....to mock him. During every playoff series he played in, the opposite goaltender was always better. In his only Stanley Cup Final appearance he faced 143 shots and Vas faced 140 and he admitted he didn't play well at the start of the series letting in soft goals. Why on the first 80 shots he faced he let by 13 goals for a save percentage of 84%, hardly a good rating even for a average NHL goaltender. Montreal outplayed TB in the first 3 games of the series but Price wasn't 'in'' those games on a conscious level because he was hiding his drug addiction. The only reason Price leads in wins, in the Montreal franchise history, is because he was carried by the club for 15 years, the last 5 years of his regular season play he was in the bottom third of NHL goaltenders. No other Montreal goaltender made it past 10 years of play. Sam Pollock, the best GM Montreal ever had, would have shipped him off when Prices play went downhill 5 years before he stooped playing. This was the same Sam Pollock who traded Tony Esposito (Mr. Zero - who holds the modern day record for shutouts in a season to Chicago). If Sammy would trade Tony O he certainly would have dumped Price for inconsistent play. Under Pollock, Montreal had strong offensive teams and good defenses, he won a record number of Stanley Cups as a GM. Bob Gainey destroyed that offence when he became GM, getting all defensive players to protect Price in nets. He got Scott Gomez for example making him the, or one of the, highest paid players on the team. NJ and NY knew he was washed up, but Gainey took the bait anyway. It took Price almost 9 years in Montreal to have 2 1/2 consistent outstanding seasons in Montreal. The team suffered because of him with Gainey, then MB weakening the team even more by trying to get players to protect the fact that Gainey wasted a first round draft choice on a goaltender. Halak was the hero of the 2009-10 playoffs defeating both Pittsburg and Washington in the first 2 round while standing on his head for 14 full games. Price played 1 1/2 of those games in one series and 1/2 game in the other series and played terribly, forced Halak back into the nets. Halak's regular season play is also what got Montreal into those playoffs. Hasek has 6 or 7 Vezina trophies and several Stanley Cups and played on some weak Buffalo teams to boot, but he was consistent and above average all the time, not some of the time like Price. To reward Price for those two and a half seasons Montreal opened the vault and the new MISmanagements threw out all of the rules and history which made this franchise great. That was NO player was more important than the team and franchise. They did that with Rocket Richard, with Jacques Plante, with Jean Beliveau, with Guy Lafleur, with Larry Robinson, with Serge Savard, with Guy Lapointe.....etc. The rules were thrown out for Carey Price. You couldn't even talk about his bad play. The fan base created a monster as a result. When Carey Price cheated on his wife and got a girl pregnant and had her get an abortion, it was kept out of the news. Price became an addict to powerful opiates because he made the decision to do that. The team would not have allowed it. But Price with all that money to buy illegal opiate drugs unbeknown to anyone expect to him and his drug dealer. Meniscus knee issues is only painful before surgery, not after. Once they cut away the torn parts of the meniscus, inflammation stops. They use keyhole surgery to fix the meniscus. How do I know? I have had both knees done for a total of 7 surgeries. Price is what lawyers and insurance companies call a maligner. He milks his injury. I think Price's addiction problems started with the Kreider injury and thereafter went out of control simply because of a lack of discipline. I blame Gainey for putting all of his eggs in one basket with Price and the Carey Price fans who put pressure on this guy by never holding him to account like all other players in the NHL. For 5 very long horrible years of the team absorbing terrible losses, a drug addict was forced to play in the nets for Montreal on the mere chance the magic of those 2 1/2 years just might return during the regular season. ...............................But management didn't know they were dealing with a drug addict...............Management only found out when Price checked into a rehab facility the NHL paid for.. Who wins? Not the team.... Not the fans..... Only Carey Price who wins the lottery every time he cashes his pay cheque. Given the current exchange rate between the US/Cdn $......Price is getting $14 million Canadian dollars a year for not playing or about $268,000 a week....that's not chump change. Price and his family are laughing all the way to and from the bank every week. Price should send MB thank you notes every day for such a sweet deal. Why fans feel sorry for Carey Price is beyond me and not for Brendan Gallagher, who busted his butt every game he has ever played in, and whose body has suffered repeated serious injuries. Brendan never got hooked on painkillers because he has character and a sense of responsibility to the team and his teammates. In my opinion, Price does not. When Carey Price cashes his last pay cheque in 2026 Montreal will have freed up 10.5 million dollars of cap space to get players who are actually worth their salaries. Till then, Montreal is burdened with Carey Prices dead weight of $10.5 million a year.

[@joshb6470]

I hope he thanks his PED supplier and curses the security in Tampa for stopping him from getting his product to him for that series, I mean did he ever crash to earth right before needing to enter the substance abuse program....

[@riba1329]

Maybe the best to never win it! A shame, they never could provide him with a decent team to go all the way...

[@noodle3872]

Carey Price’s career accomplishments make him worthy of being a first ballot Hall of Famer. He is one of the absolute nicest people I’ve ever met.

[@amsro9094]

Wasted his amazing 15 year career with middling rosters in front of him. Shame.

[@DEFBOY35]

Yup. He made some weak teams look pretty damn good.

[@gothaminsanity]

'David Reinbacher'

[@DEFBOY35]

Easily one of the best to ever play. He almost single-handedly made most of the Canadians teams in front of him look much better than they were, and if it weren’t for injury, would easily have pushed up the ranks in all time wins etc. not a Montreal fan, but I definitely wanted price to win a cup. And that sadly is the one accolade that will keep many from allowing him into the goat conversation.

[@DEFBOY35]

@@Kokobazonkos Tukka was great as well. He put up marginally better numbers with much better teams in front of him. 9/10 would take price over task if they had to pick

[@SimRacingVeteran]

Already been said but Kreider happened to Price.

[@buttkciker101]

Chris Kreider was the one who ran into him and injured Carey. if that didn't happen, the Habs would've won the cup

[@MarctheHabsFan]

I love the Habs but no, we were not beating that loaded Kings team in 2014 if Kreider doesn't crach into Price. Their centers were Kopitar-Carter-Stoll-Richards, it would have been a complete mismatch against Desharnais-Plekanec-Eller-Briere. Would have been a very quick series win for LA. I am not even all that sure we beat the Rangers with a healthy Price either, to be honest.

[@amsro9094]

And he'd likely still be playing. Fuck Kreider.

[@SimRacingVeteran]

@@MarctheHabsFan- it’s debatable, I think Price in his prime would have won the cup if Kreider didn’t ruin him.

[@trondeaf]

​​@@MarctheHabsFan Youre own defensemen took your goalie out trying to keep Kreider from scoring on a breakaway. You can literally see his stick bend on Kreiders leg when he slashes him. Hard to take you serious if you cannot be unbiased

[@jimmyg324]

I remember that season we played great and won against the kings. Price was a brick wall The kings got a wayyyy better team but Price only by himself make me believe we had a chance

[@fluffypuff6027]

Martin broduer = best goalie ever

[@davidstegne3036]

Patty Roy. No one did it better, especially when it counted most.

[@Oilers1972]

Yes for the Hall of Fame

[@karandeosingh2356]

Chris Kreiders slew foot is why the habs did not win the Easyern conference finals and it ruined his career.

[@billbernardi9380]

Yes he is going hall of fame ,he is the good number 31 will be retired

[@cavsfan-ln8tu]

Probably - especially with the state of nhl goaltending and lack of longevity in net nowadays in general. Hank, quicky, fluery in first but price should follow from that generation for HOF.

[@grimace6906]

4:19 who tf is berg even

[@mmooney6860]

he was that good

[@adamgates4659]

Bergevin is absolute trash for the teams he put around price

[@debbiewilson8157]

Mark Bergevin

[@GuillaumeRouleau]

Bargavin

[@djeemy]

100% Hall of Fame The Habs fail Price with no good offensive team in 16 years Only one year with Kovalev did the Habs had a more then one point per game player Colorado when they won the cup had 4 4 in one year vs 1 in 16years

[@dumbo753]

He carried an entire team for 15 years. No wonder his knees failed him lol

[@bdbdkdfotbrveiw]

Alcoholism, after krieder took his knee out he was never the same and fell to the drink - summary

[@MarctheHabsFan]

He had his best season in 2014-15 after the collision with Kreider...

[@bdbdkdfotbrveiw]

@@MarctheHabsFan do not discount the weight of pulling an entire franchise from the depths of mediocrity to playoff appearances. I’m a Leafs fan, and can recognize Price was one of the only reasons the habs were competitive

[@MarctheHabsFan]

@@bdbdkdfotbrveiw I am not denying that but your comment was that he ''was never the same'' after the Kreider incident. He put together an epic season right after, just superhuman stuff on many nights in 2014-15, so clearly that Kreider incident did not impact his health much. I think the demarcation point was more the fall of 2015 when he suffered 2 separate knee/leg injuries and missed the rest of that season.

[@Furrina89]

​@@MarctheHabsFan 20ish years ago, my mom was hit on her knee by a motorcycle coming from behind. Like her knee folded in the wrong direction. After some treatment she was fine, but over the years her leg is getting worse. The old injury flairs up occasionally, during winters or when she puts extra stress on her legs, hell sometimes even if she is just sitting or standing in the same position for a long time, her knee locks causing her leg to freeze. Now, imagine the same injury but with 20x more active lifestyle, and the 20yrs worth of damage would be done in 1 year. So, yeah, even if he was playing above and beyond immediately after the accident, it doesn't mean his body wasn't breaking down inside.

[@paulwubben7506]

Can we talk about the brutal butchering of french names in this video?

[@etcot8220]

To be fair, no Canadian teams won the cup the last 27/28 years. Blame it all you want but the culprit is more likely Bettman and Kreider at this point if he didn’t won a cup.

[@SimRacingVeteran]

Habs are the last Canadian team to win the cup. 😂

[@gidzmobug2323]

​​​@@SimRacingVeteran Yes--Habs vs Kings, 1993 Cup final. Habs won in 5 games. The Kings didn't get to the Cup Final again till the 2011-12 season (#8 seed). The Kings won the Cup then, and again in 2014.

[@williammoss9065]

he is a hall of famer.

[@bondjames652]

He retired rich. That's what happened. If he needed the money he would still be playing. 1000%

[@Cubaquois]

Biggest drunk rookie, sex drugs and clubs. At home winning 10 million a year doing nothing. Halak should have stayed. But habs love a good soap opera, and everything is amplified in Montréal. If only Québec born players were allowed back in the original 6 teams to get drafted by another team than Montréal, who knows how many cups other teams would have.