A legend is being traded from the only team he’s ever known.<\/p>\n
Well, his contract, at least.<\/p>\n
Price, whose contract expires after the season, will help the Sharks reach the salary floor. The goalie, currently on long-term injured reserve, has not played since 2022 due to a significant knee injury and is not expected to again.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old from Anahim Lake, B.C., spent his entire 15-season NHL career with the Canadiens, posting a 361-261-79 record across 712 regular-season games with a 2.51 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage. In 92 playoff appearances, he added a 43-25 record along with a 2.39 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage.<\/p>\n
Drafted fifth overall by Montreal in 2005, Price went on to win the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (2021-22), as well as the Hart Memorial Trophy, Ted Lindsay Award, Vezina Trophy and William M. Jennings Trophy for his remarkable 2014-15 season, when he posted 44 wins, a .933 save percentage and a 1.96 goals-against average.<\/p>\n
He signed his eight-year, $84-million contract on July 2, 2017.<\/p>\n
As a result of the trade, the Canadiens now have just over $4.56 million in cap space. The move comes after the Canadiens paid Price a $5.5-million signing bonus on Sept. 1, leaving $2 million for the Sharks to cover over the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n
Laroque, 22, played nine AHL games last season with the San Jose Barracuda, recording one goal and one assist. The Sharks selected him in the fourth round of the 2021 draft.<\/p>\n
A native of Edmonton, Laroque has one year remaining on his three-year, entry-level deal, which carries a cap hit of $836,667 in the NHL and sees him earn $80,000 in the minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legend is being traded from the only team he’s ever known. Well, his contract, at least. Price,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-122926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}