Carey Price offers advice to young Canadiens dealing with spotlight
Carey Price experienced all the highs and lows that can come with playing for the Canadiens during his 15 seasons as a goalie in Montreal's hockey-mad market.
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On Sunday, when Price was honoured as the Sports Personality of the Year at the Cummings Centre Sports Celebrity Dinner, he was asked what's the best advice he has for young players now with the Canadiens when it comes to dealing with the pressure and very bright spotlight in Montreal.
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'I would say to young players, I have a lot of experience going through the highs and lows of playing in an intense hockey market,' Price said. 'I think my biggest advice would be to enjoy those highs and lows because you're going to learn from both of them. You're going to grow from the times that are tough — because I certainly did — and then you have to learn to humble yourself in the times of success. My advice would be to enjoy both those moments and learn from them both.'
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The high point of Price's career with the Canadiens came in 2014-15, when he won the Hart Trophy as league MVP and the Vézina Trophy as the top goalie after posting a 44-16-6 record, along with nine shutouts, a 1.96 goals-against average and a .933 save percentage. He also carried the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup final in 2021 while playing on an badly injured knee that ended his career after playing only five games in the 2021-22 season.
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There's a very good chance Price will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame later this year in his first year of eligibility.
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One of the low points in Price's career came in 2010 when he lost his starting job to Jaroslav Halak, who led the Canadiens to the Eastern Conference final before losing to the Philadelphia Flyers. Halak posted a 9-9-0 record during that playoff run, along with a 2.55 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage.
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'Honestly, I learned quite a bit about being a professional and a lot about myself,' Price said about that time during a one-on-one Q&A session Sunday with former Gazette and Sports Illustrated columnist Michael Farber. 'I hadn't really taken a back seat to another guy before in my entire life to that point.
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'Watching somebody out there doing what I wanted to be doing and being successful doing it,' Price added. 'There was two ways I could have went about it. I could have either sat on the sideline and pouted or I could have put my work boots on and just try to be ready for when I went in there. I think that spring taught me that I had the fortitude to keep pressing forward when things weren't going my way. I think if you were to talk to any of the teammates that I had been playing with at that particular time they would have told you that's what I did. I just wanted to do what I could to be prepared for when the time came to go in.'
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