Price heads to Hall
Courtesy Montreal Canadiens
Carey Price’s 15-season career with the Montreal Canadiens will now forever be immortalized, after he and five others were named to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday afternoon.
Price’s 361 career wins are the most in the Canadiens’ 116-year history; they also place him 24th in league history - eight behind fellow hall of famers Tom Barrasso and Pekka Rinne. His 43 playoff wins place him fourth all-time among Canadiens’ goaltenders.
Price won the Hart Memorial Trophy (most valuable player to his team), William M. Jennings Trophy (lowest goals against average), Vezina Trophy (best goaltender), and Ted Lindsay Award (most outstanding player voted on by the NHL’s players’ association) for the 2014-2015 season, becoming the only goaltender to have won all four awards in the same season.
He also won the Bill Masterton Trophy (given to the player “who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey”) for 2021-2022, after his return from the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program as well as his battle with a knee injury - the injury which ultimately ended his playing career.
Internationally, Price was the starter for most of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for Team Canada, winning gold. He also won gold as the starter in the 2007 World Juniors.
Born in Vancouver, Price and his family moved to Anahim Lake, British Columbia, when he was three-years old.
Price is a member of the Ulkatcho First Nation, whose offices are in Anahim Lake; Carey’s mother Lynda Price was the elected chief for the First Nation from 2005-2009 and 2019-2025.
