How Good Was Carey Price Actually? 

At his prime, he was probably one of the best goalies there's ever been.

He only played with one 80 point scorer his entire career and that was in his rookie year with kovalev. I’m not a habs fan and price isn’t even my favourite goalie but what this guy did for that team makes him the goat in my book

As a goalie myself, Price is more than a good goalie. He's the best of the past 15 years and I don't even wanna hear about Flower, Lundqvist, Vasy... His near perfection technique changed the present goaltending forever. I never hear anyone who was looking at Flower or Lundqvist to get better. We (the goalie) were always looking at Carey to learn. Despite beeing an absolute magnificent legend of a goalie, he was and still a model for the present goalies. Stats doesn't matter cause the habs suck (i'm a habs fan). It's not hasard if he was the #1 goalie for team canada in front of prime Luongo, Holtby, Crawford and Fleury, it's because he was better than them. Stanley cup or not I don't care, Carey is a top-5 all time.

What the stats don't take into account is just how good he looked doing it. The '21 run, it looked like a purpose-built machine stopping pucks. His smoothness and precision are just another level.

I'm a Leafs fan, and Carey Price was one of the best goalies to ever play this game, when he played they were a playoff team, when he didn't that team was trash. It's a shame they never ever gave him a legit chance to win a cup.

As a habs fan…This dude was absolutely unreal. His 2014 season was unbelievable. I remember being upset after Halak brought us to the conference finals, then he left and Price was our guy. Ive never been more glad that i was wrong.

My favourite goalie growing up

A couple years ago this man single handedly took an awful NHL team to the Stanley cup finals with a drug addiction... He's one of the GOATs

And some people still think he doesn't deserve to have his number retired... "He doesn't have a cup" Sure, but thats not on him, he won league MVP ffs

As a Habs fan, he played on teams that had no stars, hardly anyone who scored. Only 1 player had 80 points in all the seasons Price played. He was relied on to win games by himself. He was awesome.

I miss him so much! Awesome goaltender.! His knee kept getting worse .What bothers me the most , is that the Habs organization could not put a very good team in front of him, consistently. A waste in a way.

As someone who grew up playing goalie, he was the one you wanted to emulate. On a technical level he was just so good!

Till this day no goalie comes close technique wise than Price. He was so smooth and efficient it was truly beautiful to watch him play. I’d say top 5-7 goalie of all time and no doubt a HOFER.

Watching this video, and knowing how it ends, is so heartbreaking... he just kept getting better, but the team infront of him just kept getting worse.

Sad to see his career end the way it did, if Chris krieder wasn’t a cheap bastard the nhl wld still have this guy between the pipes instead of in the press box

Die hard flyers fan - played goalie for 18 years. Price was the only player I have ever cheered for outside of a current flyers player. Loved watching him and trying to mimic his play.

I miss Carey a lot, everything I hear about his career ending still heartbreaks me.

After watching this video theres something that i miss even more than Pricer ; MTL vs BOS playoff rivalry!

Best goalie to ever live.....if only the poor guy had a team in front of him....he deserved a cup, what a shame...

Top 5 in the history of goaltending if montreal had a little offence Price would've had a couple cups no lie and i used to watch Luongo every night also watched goalies like Miller and Hasek but Price was insane the saves the 1 goal games it was insane

My two best friends dislike him. I just can't understand why. Roy and Price are my two favorite Habs goalies by far.

The injury in the playoffs vs the rangers altered the course of his career. That was too bad. I don’t consider him the best ever, not even in my top 5 Canadiens goalie. With Roy, Dryden, Plante, Hainsworth and Vezina ahead of him. Looking forward to the Price saga, and move on with the rebuilt. Don’t get me wrong, he was a great goalie, great personality and all the kids loved him. That is good enough for the hall of fame for me.

growing up playing goalie and watching price, he was always calm cool and collected and that is what made him so good. he had the ability to shit he door anytime he wanted when healthy

The fact that he did that last playoffs run with his knee swolen up and under heavy pain is simply incredible. His knee actually never recovered from the Kreider feet first ''Fall'' , he played all those years with that injury. He really was the GOAT.

your video made me realize Price's career is nearly the exact span over which i have watched hockey in my life. I started gaining interest in '04 and Price was drafted in '05. He played his last full season in 2019-20 as I started losing interest. Ive barely watched a single full game since the pandemic. This video was a great summary of my memories, thank you

Until now, I didn't realize how much of a rivalry Montreal/Tampa must be growing into. At least on Montreal's side. 😅

One of the greatest goalie of all time! We miss Carey!

Hes in the top 5 of all time greats

Best goalie ever ... and i was an Halak fan..

Price was if not the best one of the very best to ever play the game. He only had one 80 point scorer during his tenure and only one decent team for two years.

People seems to forget he did everything by himself. He nevers had a team in front of him. Only one players with 80pts… Miss him allready

i saw Price play many times over the years and when he was on, nobody could beat him. his firsts years were hit and miss but after they traded Halak, he was the man. i've started many "carey carey" chants at the bell center and the last time i saw him play, it was probably his worst match i ever saw : game 3 of the 2021 SC finals where he allowed 6 goals, including 4 in the first 25 mins. still, i've started theses "carey carey" chants even after a bad goal in that game (with only 2k people in attendance) and the bell center never felt more alive. he's still the king of the bell center.

I had season tickets for the Tri-City Americans when Price played in the minors. They were not a good team, and Price often faced 40-60 shots a game. However, his exceptional skills kept them somewhat competitive. He's undoubtedly one of the best goalies I've ever had the pleasure of watching play the game.

CAREY! CAREY! CAREY!

Price is just that guy

started crying at the Kreider video and then it got much worse at the 21 finals, great video.

IMO he is best goalie to ever play. He did amazing with what he had infront of him. The knee injury really hurt his last bit of his career. Will always be my favourite goalie.

I played goalie at a relatively high level for 12 years. I've seen all types, ive studied the greats - Carey Price is the most talented goalie of all time, imo. He's mechanically clean as it gets, awareness is off the charts, and he has that Hasek instinct to make the impossible saves. The peak didn't last forever, but if you factor in the scoring environment - i believe he posted the only season better than Haseks '99 season.

I watched every game of Carey Price in his prime, which was roughly between 2012 and 2015, encompassing his gold medal run at the 2014 Olympics. In his prime, Price was a beast, single-handedly winning lobsided games that Montreal had no business winning. I had never seen a goalie who had shear technical abilities as well as athleticism. The thing is, that he never translated his heroics into a Stanley Cup, norfid he particularly distinguish himself during the playoffs. It's not that he played poorly during the yes, it's just that he didn't bring his game to another level. The thing is that Montreal has a legacy of. Goalies who have had spectacular playoff runs carrying the entire team on their back, that otherwise has no business winning. Dryden in 1971, Patrick Roy in 86 and 93, to a lesser Steve Penny in 1985 and jaroslav halak in 2010. It's true that he played well in the lockout playoff season, but I kind of place that in another category entirely since there for a lot of unusual circumstances. In the end, he never brought home a cop or excelled in the playoffs the way fans had hoped, and the last few years of his career were marrred by injury, drug rehab and just overall state of uncertainty while at the same time commanding the largest salary on the team despite not playing at all-- a very bittersweet end. To me, he has more in common with someone like Robert Luongo than Patrick Roy.

i seen most of his games, and he wasn't good...he was absolutely magnificent.

As someone who saw Dryden and then Roy and the Hart winning Theodore, I can say that he was in the same class with Roy and Theodore. To me, he was the last of the great non-clone goalies of today who are positional only and don't make half as many athletic saves as the previous generations did. Sadly, he came along after the Canadiens ownership had changed and they lost the things that made them special and able to contend regularly. For a ten year period, right in the middle of his career, Montreal ranked DEAD LAST in drafted players making it to the NHL. That was one of the things that made them the envy of every other team, they drafted and developed better than anyone. It's such a shame that they couldn't put a half decent team in front of him for even one year.

Price means the absolute world to me both as a player and human being. Guy just dominated the 2010s like it was nothing. He was one of the biggest reasons why the 2010s was such a low scoring decade and how that made the game fun and hardcore. He never had a true superstar forward on his team that was a point per game or higher. He carried every team he had single handedly especially that unexpecting run to the final in 2021 with the habs being an 8th seed and all. He, Lundqvist and Luongo are prolly the best goalies to ever play not just in their generation but all time that didn't get their names on the cup. Ofc not everyone can win cups but at least 3 of those guys at least got to go to 1 cup final (Luongo in 2011, Lundqvist in 2014 and Price in 2021) so at least they got to experience that to see what it was like. Plus, Price got a 2014 gold medal and the vezina, jennings, ted lindsay and hart trophies in 2015 and is the winningest goalie in canadiens history so that certainly is good enough in my book for a goat!!! He also was the one who finally got me to break the stigma in dealing with a depression case of my own in the fall of 2021. From April 2020-October 2022, I had a big case of depression, anxiety, insomnia and more. It started in April 2020 but it wasn't actually that bad at first. It wasn't until January 2021 when it really got bad and I started getting desperate and going insane and it wasn't until November 2021 when I finally came public about it. I obviously could've came forward in 2020 but I wasn't sure how my superiors were going to take it since i had never dealt with that before until then but better late than never. Him revealing his own mental issues in October 2021 was what gave me the courage to break silence as well. It takes a shit ton of courage to do such a thing and who knows if I would've done it when i did or at all if it hadn't been for him. Some people say that he isn't tough or is too mentally weak or say stuff like real men don't believe in mental health issues and it sickens me. Money isn't everything. We are all human beings who can get mental challenges at anytime and revealing yourself and admitting you have a problem is by far the strongest thing a human can do. I am not ashamed of my own at all and I know he isn't either. Ever since November 2022, things for me personally have recovered pretty decently although i get some hurdles here and there. I just hope I get a chance to meet him in the future somehow so I can say thank you not just for all the joy he provided me on the ice but also giving me the strength I needed to take my mental health as seriously as possible!

He is the NHL goalie version of a modern day GOAT.

super price i live in montreal always been a big fan of jesusprice he had no team infront of him all his canadiens career.sadly

I always rooted for Carey and I really think he deserved a Stanley Cup. I'm ashamed MTL teams over his career couldn't make it happen. I wish the best for him.

Olympic hero forever

Always injury here and there slowing him down, but you saw at the olympics, with a good team in front of him, he was almost unbeatable. I’ll remember him for almost never allowing a bad goal, it was really rare. One of the only way to beat him was to screen him, but if not, good luck. There’s a reason why players always voted him as the best goalie. Man such a shame with the teams he had, he represents his name relly well. The level of confidence he gave to his team was unmatched, the argument « never eon a cup » is so surface level in my opinion, watch him play au you’ll now. Put him with a above average team and yeah he wins a few.

This man was good. Realy good

True fans will never forget what he did.

One of the greatest ever. He would have at least 3 Vezina if it wasn't for injuries

I’m so fucking sad I never got to see him play live. He is probably a top 5 goalie of all time.

Best goalie ever IMO - Leaf fan

Price is the GOAT of the post clutch n hold era, there just hasnt been that many greats since the old days but Carey is on top! King Henrik is a very close #2, after that is a steep drop to the next consistently dominant goalies

This guy carried the canadians for years. All his lows people wine about were him being human, and without him those team lows wpuld have been even lower

Price on 16 other teams would have probably won many Stanley Cup. He had one PPG player in his teams for his whole career, and it was Alex Kovalev during his rookie season.

For a good 4-5 years, he was the best PLAYER in the league... a true gamebreaker.. and if you guys don't bevieve me... go watch the last playoff run where he took a Montreal team with the top two scorers being Tyler Toffoli and Josh Anderson to the Cup Final lol...

Price had a lot of hype around him. He delivered on the hype with an incredible rookie year. He wasn't as good in his 2nd season in 2008-2009 and some fans were already turning on him. He wasn't having a bad season but he was either incredible or let in soft goals. The 2009 playoffs is when a lot of fans turned on him. He wasn't good and the fans let him hear it giving him the bronx cheer. in 2009-2010, Price was getting the most hate he ever had in his career. He didn't have a great season and many fans thought he was never going to become a number 1 goalie. The 2010 playoffs is when the Price hate was at his worst. Many habs fans wanted Price to get traded since Halak played like a god in the playoffs. Halak got traded instead and many fans were furious. 2010-2011 is the season Carey Price became Carey Price. He was incredible and should've won the Vezina that year. This is the year all the Price haters were finally put to rest. The rest is history.

They called the man Jesus Price for a good reason. Montreal not assembling a cup winning team in front of him is downright criminal.

Hi miss you Carey price 😊

He was great 🇨🇦

Carey Price was better than any goalie in the current NHL teams , goalies back then was generally better than in todays game. Lundqvist, Cam Ward and Fleury were also around the same level as Price during that Era. Corey Crawford and Pekka Rinne also world class back then but does not get enough credit

Pittsburgh tried to have the covid playoff threshold reduced just because of Price

Maybe he will come back for one more go!!!!

He's a hall of famer. Period. End of story.

Carey only had 1 person on this team score 80 points in his career. Alexei Kovalev was the only person to score 80 points in the 07-08 Season. Yeah, he is that good.

whats he doing now?

respect !!!! Goalie Tenders should be talked about more.

from a technical stand point, there was nobody better. Carey relied on his lateral movements. and his unearthly Ability to anticipation plays... dude was in a position to make a save, even before the play developed lol, this is what made him the Goaltender he was. and will retire as... no doubt in my mind he will be a First Ballot HOF'er

basically tampa and new york stopped him from winning the cup

Carey is one of the best we’ve ever seen. Too bad he couldn’t win a cup. Haters are full of shit, they haven’t watched him play as some of us did growing up. Or they truly don’t know what a great goaltender is.

Pretty damn good.

Baker Mayfield has a twin brother who plays hockey ? Wild.

My only ever true sadness is that Carry will never be able to hoist the cup he so desperately deserves.

Carried the team, should have let him go to a Stanley cup contender or a team of his choice for his services with a so so team.

He deserved the cup.

Halak was TRADED to the blues for Lars Eller.

I am convinced he would have become a top 3 goalie of all time if he didn't have injury problems. The Kreider incident really changed the trajectory of his career for the worst. To this day I still haven't forgiven him.

He was definitely pretty solid

Hahaha , hes literally top 5 in history 😤💪

Imagine if MTL won the cup in 2019.

The greatest ever

In answer to your question, very good.

It's unfair to judge a goalie from any team based in Canada on whether or not they won a Cup because Bettman won't let Canadian teams win.

I named my dog Maximus Price ❤

I’ll always remember him in that shootout against the Americans in the semis of WJC, such an amazing ending to that game and for the shootout to go that many rounds. Despite not having a cup, he is right up there as the best goalie in the last 20 years with Fleury. He could steal games like no other and always seemed like such a genuinely nice person.

I remember that draft. Was watching on a big screen in a lounge area at a Okanagan White Spot. EVERYONE was shocked by the pick. I remember Gainey being interviewed and asked why it was Carey Price (it was an unexpected pick at 5th). He answered he was "the best quality". I wanted Kopitar, and I still wish it was Kopitar, no offense to Price. I think if Price wasn't dealing with stuff he could've been even better. As awesome as he was, IMO (outside of international play) he'd be awesome in the playoffs but hit a wall before closing the deal. Got out goaltended in some big games. IMHO. Wish him well especially with dealing with his demons. He's a great guy.

RIP Carey

With the horrible teams he had in front of him. I'd place him second behind Hasek in modern hockey. Having incredible stats while being the least offensively supported goalie in the playoffs. He's definitly top tier. I love Brodeur and Roy was great in the playoffs, but he could only dream of having similar teams as them.

He was the best in his prime. if only he had better players in front of him and no asshole to injure him

It's abysmal what this team did to him. His entire career, only one player had more than 80 points on his team (rookie year). Probably the biggest what if in league history

I think his one incredible year overrated the hell out of him. I am not saying he isn’t one of the best goalies ever, but dudes like even kinda it’s are greater

Mtl never really did put a great team in front of him, but Halak did outshine him at times. although he was a great goalie, I'd say he was probably the "best' of them for about 2 years, never was as consistent as Dryden or Roy.

The Habs went as price went. They couldn't put a team around him.

King Henrik was better but that is about it from their era

Lol, makes a "How good was Carey Price Actually" video - doesn't Actually tell you. Enjoyed the reminiscing on Price but its tough to gauge without comparables or Era Adjusts. Could Price have had the same success Roy did if team in front was as good? I find myself thinking, Man How good was Price? but then also How good was Price Actually?

I HATED when the Rangers played MTL with him in net. Always thought he was the best in the league.

Halak could be much cheaper guy with almost same Stats

If you look at goals saves above average he is number on all his career when other like Raask has stellar defense and great two way offense and it goes for fleury, quick and so on. They should have been bottom league all these years but he was good enough to carry them to playoffs with addiction and a busted knee far from healthy. With a good team I think he would have done even. Better than vasilevsky did . He probably would have 3-4 cups

The price is right when the drinks are free.

Patrick Roy