Price\u2019s Contract Traded: After the Canadiens paid Carey Price<\/a>\u2019s signing bonus on Monday, it was widely expected that they\u2019d move him to get out of using LTIR, a position they\u2019ve been in since 2021.\u00a0 They did just that, sending<\/a> the injured netminder to San Jose with a 2026 fifth-round pick in exchange for defenseman Gannon Laroque<\/a>.\u00a0 Price hasn\u2019t played since 2022 but has carried a $10.5MM AAV during that stretch, causing Montreal to have carryover bonus penalties each season since then which is why they were willing to part with a draft pick to avoid being in that spot this season.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Sharks will only be responsible for paying 40% of his $2MM salary (insurance will cover the rest), meaning they\u2019ve effectively bought a draft pick for $800K.\u00a0 As for Laroque, he has played in just 22 games over the last three years and didn\u2019t suit up at all last season and his playing future remains in question.<\/p>\n Calling It A Career: After parts of ten NHL seasons, veteran center Derek Ryan<\/a> has called it a career, announcing<\/a> his retirement at the age of 38.\u00a0 A free agent this summer, he acknowledged that he wasn\u2019t actively pursuing a contract although he would have been open to returning to Edmonton.\u00a0 Ryan took the long route to the NHL, not getting his first contract until 28, that coming after stints in Canada\u2019s college system and three seasons in Austria, hardly a common route.\u00a0 But Ryan eventually became a quality bottom-six center for several years, chipping in with 209 points and a 55.3% success rate on faceoffs in 606 games between Carolina, Calgary, and Edmonton.<\/p>\n Dryden Passes Away: Early Saturday, the Canadiens announced that their long-time goaltender and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden<\/a> passed away<\/a> at the age of 78 after a battle with cancer.\u00a0 He was an elite netminder for Montreal in the 1970s, winning six Stanley Cups and five Vezina Trophies over eight seasons and is tied with Dominik Hasek<\/a> for the highest save percentage in NHL history (among goalies with at least 100 games) at .922.\u00a0 Dryden retired in his 20s but remained in the game as an announcer, an author, and later, as team president in Toronto for several seasons before pursuing a career in Canadian politics.\u00a0 Dryden was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of Sergei Belski-Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The calendar has turned to September and preseason games are only a few weeks away.\u00a0 As a result,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85,26176],"class_list":["post-127675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-week-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/connor-zary-flames-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Three For Zary: One of the few remaining restricted free agents reached an agreement on a new contract as the Flames re-signed<\/a> forward Connor Zary<\/a> to a three-year deal that will carry a $3.775MM AAV.\u00a0 The 23-year-old was a first-round pick by Calgary back in 2020 but he hasn\u2019t seen a ton of action at the NHL level thus far, just 117 outings over two seasons.\u00a0 Last season, Zary was limited to just 54 games due to a pair of knee injuries but when he was in the lineup, he was reasonably productive with 13 goals and 14 assists.\u00a0 The deal is a sign that the Flames feel he still has another level to get to offensively.\u00a0 When this contract expires in 2028, Zary will be arbitration-eligible with one year of RFA eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n