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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Canadiens: Montreal Almost Made A Big Mistake In 2005
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price was in town this weekend for the Cummings Center Charitable event, where he was honoured as the sportsperson of the year. A few members of the press were in attendance, including Tony Marinaro, and he didn't miss the opportunity to record a special episode of The Sick Podcast.
Vancouver Sun
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Vancouver Sun
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. 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. '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.' Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 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. 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. 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. '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. '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.' Another low point for Price came after the Canadiens were eliminated in the first round of the 2013 playoffs by the Ottawa Senators, with him posting a 3.26 goals-against average and a .894 save percentage. 'When you're winning here, there's no better place to play,' Price said at the time. 'But when you're not playing well here, it's definitely tough. That's one thing I miss, just being anonymous. … It's impossible. I don't even go to the grocery store any more. I hardly do anything any more. I'm like a hobbit in a hole.' At the start of the 2020-21 season, Price entered the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program to deal with alcohol problems. Price now seems to be adjusting very well to his post-hockey life at his home in Kelowna, B.C., with his wife, Angela, and their three young children — Liv, Millie and Lincoln. 'Going through transitions in life it has been a big transition — there's no doubt about it,' Price said. 'You go through your whole life being a hockey player — that's just what you are, it's what you do. And then one day it's not there so you have to reinvent yourself, fill your time. But I've been blessed to have a wonderful wife and three beautiful kids at home that I've been able to focus my time on. 'I get asked a lot if you want to get back into hockey, do you want to coach? And yeah, that sounds intriguing,' Price added. 'But at this time in my life, this stage, it's important to me to be at home with my kids and be a part of this young life of theirs. Everybody's going to make transitions in their life and this part of my life right now is all about my kids.'
Ottawa Citizen
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
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. Article content Article content 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. Article content Article content '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.' Article content Article content 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. Article content Article content Article content 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. Article content 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. Article content '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. Article content '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.'
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
With A Playoff Taste, Expectations Rise For The Montreal Canadiens' Emerging Core
The Montreal Canadiens' rebuild took a major step this year. After a couple of seasons at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings, they made the playoffs. How did the Canadiens even get to this point, though, and why were they forced to go into a full-fledged rebuild in the first place? For years and years, the Montreal Canadiens were a team without any direction. When Marc Bergevin took over the Canadiens in 2012, he inherited a multitude of promising young players, including Carey Price, P.K. Subban and Max Pacioretty. However, Bergevin and the organization's failure to draft high-level talent, develop prospects, and build a strong supporting cast of players prevented them from surrounding these three players with a championship-level roster. Sure, the Canadiens were a perennial playoff team, but they lacked the offensive depth to emerge as a Stanley Cup contender. When Price began to struggle with injuries and the core was in dire need of a rebuild, Bergevin opted to make moves simply to stay afloat as opposed to truly picking a direction to go in. In 2021 though, the Canadiens, on the back of Price, made a miraculous run to the Stanley Cup Final, where they ultimately lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in five games. Bergevin doubled down after the team's impressive playoff run signing veteran players the likes of David Savard and Mike Hoffman despite the clear fact that this team was not in a place to compete for a Stanley Cup, withstanding what transpired in the 2021 NHL Playoffs. That sentiment was deemed to be true. The Canadiens went through one of their worst starts in franchise history, with the losses of Price and captain Shea Weber due to their respective injuries, too much to overcome. Everything reached a boiling point when Canadiens owner Geoff Molson decided to fire Bergevin in November of 2021 after nearly a decade spent with the organization. It was time for the Habs to have a progressive thinker running the show in Montreal, which was why Molson went out and hired Jeff Gorton to be the team's President of Hockey Operations. Gorton is a man who thinks outside the box. One of his first moves was to appoint Kent Hughes as general manager, someone who was an agent at the time with no NHL management experience. It might have seemed like an odd move, but it's that outside-of-the-box kind of thinking the Canadiens organization was in desperate need of. The duo of Gorton and Hughes was seen as unique. They quickly made clear that the Habs would go into a rebuild, a phrase unheard of to the city of Montreal since the fanbase was accustomed to the team competing by whatever means necessary. They took swift action, firing head coach Dominique Ducharme just a few weeks into the new regime. Their replacement for Ducharme was none other than legendary forward Martin St. Louis. St. Louis's NHL resume was well documented to everybody, but his only coaching experience came in Connecticut's Mid Fairfield Youth Hockey Association, where he coached his three sons. He went from coaching youth hockey to taking over a rebuilding Canadiens team that needed a new face behind the bench to lead them. Under St. Louis, the Habs saw an instant improvement to close out the 2021-22 campaign, especially from the two young pillars of the franchise, Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield. Suzuki and Caufield always had the potential to be special and it was St. Louis who was able to unlock that full potential. 'You could see that Cole was going to be a goal-scorer and Suzuki was going to be a solid two-way player,' former Canadiens forward Phillip Danault said. 'The desire from them, the compete level they had already from that age was outstanding. They pay attention to details as well, so for me it was really impressive to see them grow.' It seemed as if Gorton and Hughes' outside-of-the-box thinking was turning into results. The Canadiens still finished with the worst record in the NHL and landed the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft. Their decision was simple or at least almost everybody thought so, pick Shane Wright, the explosive center from Canada who was predicted to be the surefire No. 1 pick for years. Once again, though, Gorton and Hughes defied all logic and shocked the world by picking a lengthy, tall left-winger by the name of Juraj Slafkovsky, who really only emerged as a top prospect in the months leading up to the draft. In the second round of that same draft, the Canadiens decided to take a flyer on Lane Hutson, a speedy and explosive defenseman who dropped out of the first round due to concerns about his 5-foot-9 frame but had an extraordinary amount of potential. Over the next two seasons, the Canadiens took a patient approach. It involved making very few major trades and signings while allowing their young core of players to develop. The Habs missed the playoffs over those next two seasons, but between the improvements of the team's young players and subtle roster additions, the rebuild was right on track. Even with all of the losses that surrounded the franchise over those couple of years, the culture remained surprisingly strong and upbeat. It was a culture built under the tutelage of Gorton, Hughes, and St. Louis as well as a united group of players. 'You could tell there was a lot of good talent in the organization,' 2022 trade acquisition Mike Matheson said. 'We had a good idea that it wasn't going to happen by chance, that we were going to get out of the space that we were in. We knew we had to keep working and really push the envelope to make it happen. We really just put it all out there… 'I think we had a really tight-knit group where I feel like everybody on the team really loved hockey and loved playing hockey and working hard. That, as a basis point, is really important for a team to cover ground and make things happen. And so I feel like that's kind of where it began.' Entering the 2024-25 season, there weren't necessarily expectations, but there was certainly excitement. Suzuki and Caufield were emerging into stars of their own, while Slafkovsky continued to show promise among other young players on the roster. Hutson was also set to play in his first NHL season after two years at Boston University, where he established himself as one of the most exhilarating prospects. Even with all the excitement, the Canadiens started the season flat and there were no signs of improvement as a group. To start the month of December the Canadiens were 31st in the overall league standings with little hope let alone even a thought about making playoffs. However, the team continued to believe in themselves and it started with St. Louis, which inspired all of his players. 'I think his belief in us is the biggest thing that drove us,' Matheson said of St. Louis. 'He never stopped believing in us. Even when there were moments when guys in the locker room thought it was too tall of a mountain to climb, he kept injecting that belief back into us. Obviously, his knowledge of the game is incredible, but I feel like that piece is really important.' The Habs somehow climbed their way from the bottom pits of the standings back into the playoff picture after flipping the script in December and carrying that strong play into January and February. However, with the playoff race in the Eastern Conference extremely tight, there were still doubts that the Canadiens could make the playoffs. Leading up to the March 7 NHL Trade Deadline, Gorton and Hughes were planning on trading a couple of their veteran players in the hopes of acquiring more draft picks and young assets. That's when Suzuki, the Canadiens' youngest captain in franchise history, stepped in. Suzuki urged management not to take a selling approach at the deadline. 'Go win games,' the management group told Suzuki after his request. Not only did the Canadiens start winning games leading up to the trade deadline, but Suzuki elevated his play and the Habs did not trade any of their veteran players. This story embodies who Suzuki is as a leader. 'He's the guy that grabs the group and says 'follow me, I'll lead,'' Emil Heineman said about Suzuki. 'He comes up so clutch and shows us what he can bring. He's a big deal for our team and a big reason why we had success this year.' In the final weeks of the season, every game was a must-win for the Habs in their pursuit of a playoff spot. Something magical began to happen. No matter how many goals the Canadiens were down by on any given night, they always seemed to find a way to come back in the most magical fashion that could only be written in a fairy tale. The Canadians were truly battle-tested. All of the pain and struggles they had to endure over the past couple of years prepared them for this very moment where they needed to dig deep and believe. 'I think we just never really gave up, and always felt like, if we found our game, we could compete with anybody in the league,' Matheson said. It took until the very last game of the regular season for the Canadiens to clinch the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, but they overcame all odds and marched their way into the post-season with more confidence than ever. The Canadiens may have lost in five games in the first round of the playoffs against the Washington Capitals, but the Canadiens showed heart and resilience and proved that they belonged. By making the playoffs, the Canadiens took a monumental step in their rebuild. 'I think we had another great learning experience in the playoffs, of seeing what playoff hockey is like and what it takes to compete and win in the playoffs,' Matheson said. The Canadiens not only impressed the people of Montreal, but also caught the attention of many around the NHL. 'I think they have so many young guys and at some point you have to get on the other side of the edge, and they did this year,' Danault said. 'Next year is going to be even harder, there's going to be more pressure, but they showed some character and they came a long way to make the playoffs. They were impressive to see and exciting for the fans to see the young guys perform.' For the Canadiens' young core, it was a year of triumph. Suzuki recorded a career-high of 89 points, Caufield became a 30-goal scorer for the first time in his career, and Hutson set a new franchise record for points by a rookie defenseman with 66 points, as he's the favorite to win the Calder Trophy. Slafkovsky had another promising season to build on, and 19-year-old Russian phenom Ivan Demidov came in for the Habs at the end of the season, showing glimpses of a superstar in the making. Now that the Canadiens have taken this step of making the playoffs, expectations for this core are officially higher. The bar has been set and they'll need to exceed the bar again without losing their identity that got them there in the process. 'I think we just need to continue building,' Matheson emphasized. 'I think if we kind of get all stressed out over wins and losses and think we're going to be a total failure if we don't win a bunch of games, I think we'll get caught in the pressure instead of just focusing on on the process of what it takes to be a winning team and what sorts of ingredients it takes to have that happen.' Losing their identity shouldn't be a problem because of the strong foundation that has already been set. Most importantly, this group of players truly embrace wearing the Habs sweater and everything that comes with being a Montreal Canadian. It's what this fan base has been waiting for all of these years, and now they have just that. Get the latest news and trending stories by following The Hockey News on Google News and by subscribing to The Hockey News newsletter here. And share your thoughts by commenting below the article on
Time of India
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'F**king creepy': Carey Price's wife Angela exposes harassment and disturbing hate mail sent to their home over political views
Carey Price's wife Angela recently spoke out after receiving a disturbing four-page hate letter (Getty Images) In a chilling reminder of the dark side of fame, Carey Price 's wife, Angela Price , revealed a deeply unsettling experience on Instagram after receiving a four-page hate letter at their family home. The incident has sparked concern not only among fans of the Montreal Canadiens goaltender but also within the broader sports community over the growing invasion of privacy public figures face. Carey Price's wife Angela slams disturbing hate mail sent to their home Angela took to her Instagram stories to share her shock and frustration, stating that while it's not unusual for fan mail to reach their house, she usually discards it without reading or showing it to Carey. She emphasized that there are appropriate and respectful avenues to reach out to the former Habs star. 'There is an address. You can go to the Montreal Canadiens website and find an address to send fan mail there. And it does get to Carey usually. So you have that,' Angela pointed out. But this recent letter was far from typical fan correspondence. Angela described it as 'the first time' they had received targeted hate mail directly at their home. The letter reportedly stemmed from disagreements over political opinions and was deeply personal. Angela was understandably shaken, and didn't hold back when expressing her disgust. 'I mean, send me a nasty message on Instagram. Be a normal person. Go to TikTok and talk crap. But sending something to someone's address where you shouldn't have their home address is wildly inappropriate. F**king creepy. Don't be a creep,' she said. Angela Price deals with tick scare after recent trip In a separate, unrelated scare, Angela also shared a recent health concern involving a tick bite following a hiking and wine-tasting trip in Tickton. After returning home, she noticed something on her neck during a work meeting. She reached out to her group of friends, and one of them quickly helped her remove the tick. 'I emailed the group of girls I was on the trip with and they jumped into action like of course a bunch of moms was gonna handle it,' she said. Fortunately, the tick hadn't latched on for long and wasn't engorged. Also Read: 'A dirt bag': Fans call for suspension as Jamie Benn fined for controversial cheap shot on Mark Scheifele in Game 5 While Angela handled both incidents with grace and humor, the hate mail incident underscores a serious issue: public figures, especially their families, deserve boundaries and respect. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
