Montreal Canadiens News: Price Nominated For Masterton, Will Undergo Evaluation On Knee, More

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Carey Price Receives Nomination For Masterton

Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price has been honored with the team’s nomination for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.

Every year, the award is presented “to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to ice hockey.” One player from every team gets a nomination.

Price underwent knee surgery in July last offseason, just two weeks after the Habs fell to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Final. In October, the 2015 Hart Trophy winner entered the NHL/NHLPA Player assistance program.

If he wins, Price will be the sixth Canadiens player to win the award. Claude Provost was the inaugural winner in 1968. Henri Richard (1975), Serge Savard (1979), Saku Koivu (2002) and Max Pacioretty (2012) are the other Habs players to have won the honors.

Though the Canadiens failed to end Canada’s Stanley Cup drought last year (29 years and counting), the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames will all give the country some hope this year. Having launched earlier this month, Ontario betting promotions are available for Canadians bettors now.

Customers can play online casinos or make bets through sportsbooks like BetMGM, BetRivers and bet365. They can also bet on futures such as the Stanley Cup winner. The Leafs and Flames are among the betting favorites at multiple major sportsbooks.

Price’s late-season return has been one of the few positives in a miserable season for Montreal. The Canadiens are guaranteed to finish dead last in the Atlantic Division by a wide margin, and they’ll be in the running for the first overall selection in the 2023 NHL Draft.

Price Will Get Knee Evaluated In New York

 Price is dealing with a knee, and it remains to be seen if he’ll return to the ice with the season winding down.

Per Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette, Price is listed as day-to-day and joined the team in New York this week. Price will undergo a medical evaluation relating to his surgically repaired knee.

The Canadiens will conclude their 2021-22 regular season against the Florida Panthers on Friday at the Bell Centre (7:00 p.m. EST).

Price, who turns 35 on Aug. 16, made his NHL debut on Apr. 15 in a home game against the New York Islanders. He turned aside 17 of 19 shots faced in a 3-0 defeat. Price also played on Apr. 19, Apr. 21 and Apr. 23.

Last year, Price agreed to go exposed in the Seattle Expansion Draft, but the Kraken ultimately decided not to select him. The franchise star has four years remaining on the eight-year, $84 million contract extension he signed in 2017.

Carey Price has many questions

At the Montreal Canadiens post-mortem after the season ended, Carey Price met the media and was quite open with the fact that he might have played his last game.

As Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette reports , Carey Price looking for answers as he ponders his future

Report: Martin St. Louis Will Retain Head Coach Position “If He Wants It”

The Canadiens saw their play improve drastically after Hockey Hall of Famer Martin St. Louis took over the bench boss duties midseason.

And according to Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic, St. Louis will remain the head coach of the Canadiens if he so chooses.

“It’s his job if he wants it,” LeBrun wrote . “There’s no question GM Kent Hughes wants St. Louis back behind the bench. St. Louis has hinted that he probably will want to return but that he and Hughes would sit down after the season and discuss it.”

The Canadiens fired Dominique Ducharme following a difficult 8-30-7 start to the season. Ducharme’s firing took place almost an entire year before he was hired to replace Claude Julien in the 2020-21 season.

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