Habs Mailbag: Could Carey Price still get name on Cup with Canadiens? (2024)

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Habs Mailbag: Could Carey Price still get name on Cup with Canadiens? ›

The answer to your question is no. Price's eight-year, US$84-million contract runs through the 2025-26 season and while he will continue to get paid, he will remain on long-term injured reserve and won't play.

Price isn't expected to ever play again because of a knee injury, but the 36-year-old goalie still has three seasons remaining on his contract with an annual salary-cap hit of US$10.5 million.

Confirms playing days are done Price (knee) confirmed Tuesday that he won't play hockey again, Arpon Basu of The Athletic reports. Impact Price's retirement won't be official until the end of his contract in 2026, so he can be expected to remain on long-term injured reserve for the next three years.

The overall net worth of Carey Price is $45 million. He agreed to a six-year, $39 million contract with Montreal in 2012.

WHL greats Shea Weber and Carey Price headline B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2024. Two of the most decorated players in hockey are adding to their resumes. Sicamous, B.C.'s Shea Weber and Anahim Lake, B.C.'s Carey Price have been announced as 2024 Inductees of the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame.

Carey Price signed a 8 year , $84,000,000 contract with the Montreal Canadiens, including $70,000,000 signing bonus, $84,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $10,500,000. In 2024-25, Price will earn a base salary of $2,000,000 and a signing bonus of $5,500,000, while carrying a cap hit of $10,500,000.

The 36-year-old is not officially retired. Price's contract runs through the 2025-26 season; the Canadiens are eligible to have him on long-term injured reserve while he is injured. He says he'd waive his no-move clause if his team found a taker for his contract. “For sure, any way I can help now,” he said.

Many taking to Twitter to express their concerns, one calling it “the end of an era.” Carey Price will sell his house and move with his family back to British Columbia. Angela told CityNews in an email: “We are just simply moving locations to be closer to our family.

Price is of the Nuxalk and Southern Carrier Aboriginal heritage. Price met his wife, Angela (née Webber), while playing with the Tri-City Americans.

He was the recipient of five major NHL Awards, including the Hart Memorial Trophy for the league's Most Valuable Player in 2015. While a Stanley Cup eluded Price, he did help guide the team to a playoff run to the final series against the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2020-21.

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Carey Price played 15 seasons for the Canadiens. He had 13 assists in 712 games. He won 1 Hart Trophy and 1 Vezina Trophy.

This year marks the first time since 1962 that three goaltenders are being inducted in the same class. There are now a total of 44 goalies in the Hall of Fame.

And for some, like Carey Price, it doesn't change because your skills have eroded, it changes because your body — which has been going hard since that very young age — simply can't do it anymore. Price is still not officially retired, but he knows he will never play professional hockey again.

Here's what you need to know: The 37-year-old Weber has not played since the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs (though he has not officially retired) and carries a cap hit of $7,857,143.

The first chapters deal with his youth, his interests and the influences on his life. Big influences were his surroundings and the chance to learn how to skate, but the biggest was Carey's father, Jerry, who was a goalie.