Did Carey Price live up to his 8 year, $84M contract?

[SeanMoneyHands]

When he resigned with Montreal in 2017, he was the highest paid goalie in NHL history. $10.5M for 8 years. Now 7 years later, he still is the highest paid goalie in the NHL despite him not playing for the past 2 years.

Price single handedly dragged his team to the cup final in 2020. But I have a feeling that because he did not win the cup, that he will be seen as a goalie who was never able to reach the level of other greats such as Roy, Brodeur, Hasek.

What do you think? Did he live up to his contract?

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[Hostile Offer]

Price had glimpses of elite performance there, including that SCF run, but I think it's pretty obvious he didn't live up to that contract. The public image never really caught up to how inconsistent and injury prone he became shortly after signing the deal.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Price lead them to a finals. That’s pretty good in my book.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Nope

 

[Breakfast of Champs]

No but considerng they LTIR'd him and it's not against the cap nobody really cares.

 

[Video Nasty]

But I have a feeling that because he did not win the cup, that he will be seen as a goalie who was never able to reach the level of other greats such as Roy, Brodeur, Hasek.

Far more than that keeping him from their level. Take out his best season and he’s a one time Vezina finalist that never led the league in any individual category and couldn’t even scrape an All-Star nod. He has a couple of distant top 5 nods. Take out the best seasons from those three and they have a fistful more ready. Belfour was also greater for that matter. Price was too inconsistent and too injury prone.

He played a combined 235 more regular season and postseason games after signing the contract and played 5 games past the age of 33. Clearly not worth it, but I suppose there was no way around it at the time.

 

[Bouboumaster]

The answer is no, but because he was hurt a lot

I think he had the talent to drag the team by himself

He had the misfortune to get hurt by POS Kreider, and it never stopped after that

 

[Grifter3511]

When he resigned with Montreal in 2017, he was the highest paid goalie in NHL history. $10.5M for 8 years. Now 7 years later, he still is the highest paid goalie in the NHL despite him not playing for the past 2 years.

Price single handedly dragged his team to the cup final in 2020. But I have a feeling that because he did not win the cup, that he will be seen as a goalie who was never able to reach the level of other greats such as Roy, Brodeur, Hasek.

What do you think? Did he live up to his contract?

Even if he had won the Cup, Price was never reaching the heights of those 3. Longevity and/or flat out dominance of the position was never there.

 

[JaegerDice]

Dear lord, no.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Yes. Dude was an absolute game changer. One of the best the league has ever seen. Act now, deal with the consequences later. The Canadiens have managed to survive.

 

[crowi]

No, he made out like a bandit. Guaranteed contracts are bad.

 

[cjm502]

8 year $84m deal, 186 total NHL regular season + playoff games played. That's a hard no from me. Winning a cup would make it okay, but that didn't quite happen.

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

Not remotely.

After that contract was signed in the 2017 off-season, Price never received a single 1st place Vezina vote, or finished a season in the top 10 in SV% or GAA. And the team's only playoff appearances were due to special covid rules and they still barely made it in. Based on all of this, a $7.5m cap hit would have still been a pretty massive overpayment, even with his Covid Cup play.

 

[dirtydanglez]

no, he was supposed to be the next roy and he just wasn't.

 

[Rcknrollkillnmachine]

I would say over-rated.

 

[Lshap]

Regular season over 7 years:

 

[Lshap]

Playoffs over 8 seasons:

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Regular season over 7 years:
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Playoffs over 8 seasons:

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Ok now do the years he was signed to that contract

 

[waitin425]

The only answer is no. Love him. But no.

 

[le_sean]

No, it was a contract based on what he had done up to that point. Like Gallagher. Bergevin was notorious for signing/not signing players based strictly on emotion rather than logic.

 

[Lshap]

To the OP's question, Price was never able to fully earn his contract, due to injuries. You could understand why he got the deal – he had been one of the most dominant goalies in the league for 7/8 years. Unfortunately, by the time he signed it he was missing more and more games.

He still remained dominant in the playoffs until the end, and you could argue those results made everything else worthwhile. Plus, he was on LTR.

 

[Lshap]

Ok now do the years he was signed to that contract

Answered above.

I posted those stats to address the faulty memories that under-rate Price's impact and think he was a one-season wonder. Had he kept playing, he would've earned that contract or maybe been considered slightly overpaid had he regressed normally. But given his career ended in 2021... no.

 

[Channelcat]

He basically defrauded the insurance company and the Habs out of 30m approximately.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Answered above.

No, you used the stats from 2010-2017… OP asked about 2017-present, aka the length of his contract

So instead of a .923/2.29 with 35 SO, he was actually .908/2.77 with 10 SO…

 

[Lshap]

No, you used the stats from 2010-2017… OP asked about 2017-present, aka the length of his contract

So instead of a .923/2.29 with 35 SO, he was actually .908/2.77 with 10 SO…

Read my post:

To the OP's question, Price was never able to fully earn his contract, due to injuries. You could understand why he got the deal – he had been one of the most dominant goalies in the league for 7/8 years. Unfortunately, by the time he signed it he was missing more and more games.

He still remained dominant in the playoffs until the end, and you could argue those results made everything else worthwhile. Plus, he was on LTR.