Can Carey Price rebound from an off-year?
Carey Price’s play is one of the biggest keys to a successful season in Montreal. After a sub-par year where it seemed that Price’s confidence was at an all time low, the young netminder has to give the Canadiens some stellar goaltending. Price is expected to play somewhere around 50 games, and if he can win around 35-40 games, the Canadiens should end up in the playoffs. Bob Gainey has given Price every vote of confidence imaginable, and the goaltender needs to show that Gainey is right in expressing his confidence in him. The native of British Columbia has made it clear that he wants to put last season behind him, and that he is determined to silence the critics. Also, after gaining that experience of what it feels like to be the goat in Montreal last year, Price has every motivation to shut people up. Add in the fact that this year’s expectations have been severely lowered, and that the distractions that naturally arose when a team celebrates one hundred years of success are now gon
