The most intriguing mystery of the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft is now known.
The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun is reporting that Kraken GM Ron Francis opted not to pick Carey Price. The Hart Trophy-winning goaltender will remain with the Montreal Canadiens.
The news comes a little over an hour after the Kraken’s draft list was turned in to the NHL (10 AM).
By Ian Oland 2 weeks ago
The Carey Price saga took another turn on Monday.
NHL insider Frank Seravalli is reporting that Seattle Kraken ownership has given GM Ron Francis the “full green light” to select Price in the Expansion Draft. If it happens, Price would be the Kraken’s biggest selection in terms of star power.
By Ian Oland 2 weeks ago
The Montreal Canadiens might have, to borrow from WWE vocabulary, worked themselves into a shoot, brother.
Friday night, reports surfaced that Carey Price waived his no-movement clause so the Habs could make him available in the Expansion Draft and protect backup Jake Allen (2.68 GAA, .907 SV%). The thought process here was that Price’s contract is so massive (bad) and that there are so many other good/better value goaltenders available, the Kraken would not think twice about drafting Price.
Except. They totally are. And now a section of Habs Twitter is losing its mind about it.
By Ian Oland 3 weeks ago
The Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft will be held on Wednesday. Saturday at 5 PM, every NHL team, except for the Vegas Golden Knights (who are exempt), submitted their list of players they would protect in the draft. Sunday, at 10 AM, the league plans to release the master list.
Saturday night, several of the big-name players who will be eligible to be drafted by the Seattle Kraken leaked to the press.
By Ian Oland 3 weeks ago
As the 2019-20 season started so did the road trips for many teams heading to their first away games. For Montreal goaltender Carey Price, there was an unexpected complication.
His daughter Liv decided that she wanted to come along–and promptly climbed into his suitcase. Liv’s mom, lifestyle blogger Angela Price, documented the exchange on her Instagram story.
With so many new and expectant dads on the Capitals, they may need to start shopping for some extra-large luggage too.
By Brennin Weiswerda 2 years ago
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price didn’t come onstage to accept an award at the 2019 NHL awards, but he deserves all the accolades for what he did.
In February, Price met a young fan named Anderson Whitehead who was waiting in the stands after practice. Anderson had recently lost his mother to cancer, and Price embraced him and gave him signed equipment. The video quickly went viral.
Anderson came out onstage at the awards, and Price was onscreen in what appeared to be a prerecorded message. A moment later Price waved away the camera and came out onstage for a touching, tearful reunion.
By Brennin Weiswerda 2 years ago
The telecast of the Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes game on March 24 will make history.
Sportsnet and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network are partnering together to broadcast a National Hockey League game in a First Nations language for the first time. (First Nations denotes Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are not Inuit or Métis, and the Cree Nation is one of the largest.)
There are eight First Nations players currently in the league according to Native Hockey’s website (including the Capitals’ TJ Oshie, who is from the Ojibwe Nation) and two of them will likely be playing in the matchup. Montreal Canadiens’ goaltender Carey Price, from Anahim Lake, is the son of Lynda Price, the former chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation.
The Carolina Hurricanes are the only NHL team with a Cree player: Micheal Ferland. The 26-year-old forward from Swan River, Manitoba will be playing in an NHL game broadcast in his Nation’s language for the first time. He is currently out with an upper-body injury but has returned to practice and could be back in the lineup on Friday.
By Brennin Weiswerda 2 years ago
After so much professional success and kindness, Carey Price has become an idol to many young Montreal Canadiens fans and recently he authored a very emotional moment with a fan who recently lost his mother to cancer.
In a video originally posted to Facebook, a young fan named Anderson breaks down in tears while meeting Carey Price. Anderson’s mother promised him that she would do everything she could so he could meet Price someday but died before she could make it happen.
By Cara Bahniuk and Ian Oland 2 years ago
While playing in Chicago, Carey Price really wanted to give a young fan a gift for his support.
At the end of the second period, Price attempted to toss the kid a game-used puck, but was foiled by the netting behind the goal. Price then enlisted the help of an official, but that didn’t work out either.
By Cara Bahniuk 3 years ago
The enduring highlight from the Capitals’ 5-4 overtime win over the Montreal Canadiens will be Carey Price’s last-second stick save on Alex Ovechkin. The stop was so good, the Great 8 clapped and high-fived the former Hart Trophy winner in a show of good sportsmanship.
But that imagery blurs what otherwise was a dominant performance by Ovechkin. The Russian machine scored twice on Price and led the Capitals in shots on goals (5). At five-on-five, Ovechkin was on the ice for 22 shot attempts for and 13 against, a 62.9 shot-attempt percentage.
Ovechkin now has 20 goals in 25 career games against Carey Price – one of the best goaltenders of his generation.
