Carey Price has finally been locked up by the Montreal Canadiens. The deal was announced by the club on Thursday afternoon. According to a few different reports on Twitter, the deal is worth $5.5 million.
Tony Marinaro of TEAM 990 reports that Price will receive $2.5 million the first year and $3 million in the second.
The Canadiens were boring in their press release, of course.
"We are extremely happy that Carey has agreed to pursue his career with the Canadiens. Carey is a key member of our Club. He has proven that he has what it takes to be a good goaltender in the league, and we are confident he will perform to the best of his abilities for years to come in a Canadiens uniform", said Canadiens general manager Pierre Gauthier.
No mention of all the issues he's been through in Montreal or the decision to trade Jaroslav Halak, who most people thought could be the next great Montreal goaltender.
We'll see if the decision was the right one soon enough, now. Carey Price has the job all to himself.
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Would Halak have really gotten much more than $3M/yr? Montreal could have gone for an old Sharks-ish Nabokov/Toskala goaltending duo where the games are evenly split.
I was really hoping Montreal would re-sign Halak, because then maybe they could have been convinced to trade the rights to Price to New Jersey. I like Hedberg as NJ’s backup, but I think Price could have ultimately taken over for Marty once he retired.
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by njdss4 on Sep 2, 2010 5:05 PM EDT reply actions
Halak got $3.75m per from St. Louis. In Montreal, he would’ve demanded higher, due to Quebec having by far the highest tax rates in the NHL. So they were looking at over $4m on Halak.
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by Bruce Peter on Sep 2, 2010 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions
You can buy a lot of cigars with that cash
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by Alexander Calloway on Sep 2, 2010 6:41 PM EDT reply actions
After he signed the deal he immediately ordered 2 truckfulls of cigarettes. duMaurier followed with a press release indicating that they would be renaming their “light” cigarettes to duMaurier Price and duMaurier Extra Price effective immediately.
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by Jo4nny on Sep 6, 2010 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions
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