Carey Price

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Position Goaltender
Catches Left
Height
Weight		 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
226 lb (103 kg/16 st 2 lb)
NHL Team Montreal Canadiens
Nationality Flag of Canada Canada
Born August 16, 1987 (1987-08-16) (age 20),
Vancouver, BC, CAN
NHL Draft 5th overall, 2005
Montreal Canadiens
Pro career 2007 – present

Carey Price (born August 16, 1987 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender playing for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. He was raised in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

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[edit] Playing career

He was drafted in the first round, fifth overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. He spent his junior hockey career playing for the Tri-City Americans in the Western Hockey League and started his pro career with the Hamilton Bulldogs in the American Hockey League.

In 2007, the Montreal Canadiens signed Carey Price to a three year contract worth $850,000 USD. He played his first professional game and recorded his first professional win on April 13, 2007 in an American Hockey League game with the Hamilton Bulldogs against the Grand Rapids Griffins. He was the 1st star of the game as well as stopping 27 of 28 shots.

Price led his team (15–6) to the Calder Cup, with an impressive goals against average (2.06) and save percentage (.936). In his first game of the Calder Cup finals, he stopped all 46 shots to post a shutout. He won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the Calder Cup playoffs MVP while he was 19 years old. He is the youngest player ever to win this award.

Price was named Tournament MVP at the 2007 IIHF World Junior (U20) Ice Hockey Championship in Sweden in Canada's third straight (thirteenth overall) gold medal win. He was also named the tournament's top goaltender and was named to the tournament's All-Star Team along with teammates Jonathan Toews and Kris Letang.

He is the only goaltender in hockey history to be named CHL Goaltender of the year, World Junior Championship's tournament MVP and win the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy, all in the same year. He is also the only goaltender in hockey history to win the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy the same year as playing junior.

On October 1, 2007, Price was named to the Montreal Canadiens roster for the start of the 2007–08 season.

Price made his highly anticipated Montreal Canadiens debut on October 10, 2007, versus the Pittsburgh Penguins and recorded 26 saves for the Canadiens in a 3–2 win. Through the first month of the season, he would be awarded the Canadiens' Molson Cup for October, given to the player with the most first-star selections.

Although assigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL midway through the season in January, he was called back up shortly over a month later. Then, with the trade of starting goaltender Cristobal Huet before the trading deadline, Price assumed the starting role. Subsequently, Price was named the NHL Rookie of the Month for March[1] and the NHL First Star of the Week (ending April 6, 2008)[2] as the Canadiens finished first overall in the Eastern Conference. Price completed the regular season leading all rookie goaltenders in wins (24), save percentage (.920), and shutouts (3).

On April 15, 2008, in a 1–0 win against the Boston Bruins, Price became the first Montreal Canadien rookie to record a playoff shutout since Patrick Roy in 1986.[3] He would go on to record another shutout in game seven to eliminate Boston, but would eventually lose in the second round to the Philadelphia Flyers.

[edit] Personal

Price's father, Jerry Price, was also a goaltender. The elder Price was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the eighth round, 126th overall in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft. His father never played in the NHL, but he did play four seasons of pro hockey in various leagues. He is currently the Goaltending Coach of the Tri-City Americans. His mother, Lynda, is the current elected Chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation. Shane Doan, reigning captain of the Phoenix Coyotes, is a cousin of Carey Price. He has a younger sister named Kayla. He is also the second cousin to Florida Panthers prospect Keaton Ellerby.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Regular Season

   
Season Team League GP GA SO GAA W L T/OTL SV%
2002–03 Quesnel Millionaires BCHL 11 - - - - - - -
2002–03 Tri-City Americans WHL 1 2 0 6.00 0 0 0 .857
2003–04 Tri-City Americans WHL 28 54 1 2.38 8 9 3 .915
2004–05 Tri-City Americans WHL 63 145 8 2.34 24 31 8 .920
2005–06 Tri-City Americans WHL 55 147 3 2.87 21 25 6 .906
2006–07 Tri-City Americans WHL 52 128 3 2.50 32 17 1 .916
2006–07 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 2 3 0 1.54 1 1 0 .949
2007–08 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 10 26 1 2.69 6 4 0 .896
2007–08 Montreal Canadiens NHL 41 103 3 2.56 24 12 3 .920
NHL Totals 41 103 3 2.56 24 12 3 .920

[edit] Playoffs

   
Season Team League GP GA SO GAA W L SV%
2003–04 Tri-City Americans WHL 8 19 0 2.43 5 3 .906
2004–05 Tri-City Americans WHL 5 12 0 2.22 1 4 .937
2005–06 Tri-City Americans WHL 5 12 0 2.39 1 4 .896
2006–07 Tri-City Americans WHL 6 17 0 2.93 2 4 .911
2006–07 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 22 45 2 2.06 15 6 .936
2007–08 Montreal Canadiens NHL 11 30 2 2.78 5 6 .901
NHL Totals 11 30 2 2.78 5 6 .901

[edit] International play

Medal record
World Junior Championships
Gold 2007 Canada

Played for Team Canada in:

International statistics

Year Team Event GP W L MIN Sv. % GA SO GAA
2007 Canada WJC 6 6 0 370 .961 7 2 1.14
Junior Int'l Totals 6 6 0 370 .961 7 2 1.14

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Habs' Price named Rookie of the Month. TSN.ca (2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  2. ^ Price named NHL's first star of the week. TSN.ca (2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  3. ^ Carey Price earns 1st playoff shutout. CBC Sports (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-17.
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