His contract will hurt our flexibility and his salary with signing bonuses will likely make him untradeable but hopefully it doesn’t matter much the next 2 seasons. The last year of the contract, we can pay the signing bonus on July 1st and and trade him as a cap transaction after.
His contract is made up almost entirely of signing bonuses. There are no performance bonuses from my understanding.
For more context the gist of the public information is that the 2021 surgery was successful in that it repaired the knee and if Price were an average joe it would be a 100% success. He's able to walk and bike and golf and stuff with no problem, and in terms of his hockey rehab everything off-ice is going well and he can train in the gym at 100% intensity. The problem is he gets on the ice and all the movements inherent to goaltending put tons of stress on the knee (modern goaltending is an extremely unnatural and stressful movement on your hips and knees much like shoulders and elbows for pitchers in baseball) so it swells up and he has to ice it for 3 days before he can get on the ice again.
It is really depressing to look back and see how poorly the Canadiens have done over the last 25 yrs. Unable to put a team together for more than a season.
How is he milking? He signed an offer from the team, he is entitled to it.
Well I mean guys retire with contract left all the time, clearly Price should retire… he’s made enough money
I wouldn’t risk it. He’s 34 years old. Lots of life left. Imagine being 50 and needing a Walker.
If you were injured on the job, I’m sure you’d be the first guy to walk away from a contract payout. “Don’t worry, I made enough money…”
He’s basically done nothing the last two years and made over 20 million in that span. I’d be quite content myself. Especially since he’s at/near retirement age anyway.
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Lol, Carey is that you? Don’t worry buddy, you were really great at stopping pucks in your prime.
He's not milking us, or anybody in a way that matters. The Habs print money and have no trouble spending to the cap. Price is getting paid by the terms of the contract the Montreal Canadiens signed him to. Why on earth should Price walk away from that money after he was run into the ground by the Habs playing him 70 games a year for a decade to cover for mediocre team building on a discount contract?
No, they don't actually. The vast majority of NHL players stay on LTIR until their contracts end. Luongo is one of the few that have ever done it because he decided to retire a year early and gave up like 1.5M in salary to start working in the Panthers front office right away. It is very rare that players walk away from millions of dollars arbitrarily.
Just glad to hear that you’d donate any extra cash to charity bud. You’re a saint.
You get hurt on the job, the LTIR, Insurance however that works, pays you. Yes he has made a ton of money playing hockey, all deserved.
He should milk the team for every last cent because they offered him that contract, the Habs print money, and just in terms of marketing value, they’ve already recouped their investment several times over. Plus, this is the last big contract he’s ever going to have in his life, so make the absolute most of it.
Which member of the Molson family are you representing?
