This latest news on Carey Price came just 48 hours after the team announced that Price would not dress (as a backup) for what turned out to be a 5-3 Canadiens loss to the Boston Bruins Sunday night or for his next scheduled start against the New York Rangers on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. The original plan was for Carey Price to stay behind in Montreal on Tuesday when his team headed south to the Big Apple, but obviously something happened or was discovered that has prompted Carey Price to accompany his teammates on their last road trip of the 2021-22 regular season. The Canadiens will then close their season out on Friday against the Florida Panthers at the Bell Centre.<\/p>\n
Also, it should be noted that when he addressed the media late Sunday afternoon and just prior to the game against the Bruins, Canadiens interim head coach Martin St. Louis<\/a> said that as far as he knew, Price wasn\u2019t being held back due to his surgically repaired knee.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean I don\u2019t think so, you\u2019d have to talk to the medical staff on that but I think for us, we felt where the amount of games he\u2019s played, give him a break without the travel and then hopefully get him ready for Friday,\u201d St. Louis replied when asked Price had experienced this setback due to the knee he had surgery for last summer.<\/p>\n Speaking to the media after practice Tuesday, Canadiens forward Josh Anderson<\/a> didn\u2019t seem too worried at first about Carey Price.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s just an update,\u201d Anderson said of Carey Price. \u201cWe all go through that when you come back from a serious injury and I think it\u2019s just an update.\u201d<\/p>\n However, when pressed once again about how he and his teammates are feeling as they watch Carey Price experience even more setbacks, Anderson admitted it\u2019s difficult and he and his teammates can\u2019t help but worry at times.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re talking about Carey Price here, one of the best goalies in the game and ever to play, so obviously you\u2019re a bit worried but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s going to be OK,\u201d Anderson acknowledged.<\/p>\n After Anderson spoke, interim head coach Martin St. Louis addressed the media and once again tried to quell the speculation surrounding his star goalie.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought it was a big plus for him to fight and get back from a long year of dealing with his injury,\u201d St. Louis said. \u201cBut we knew that it wasn\u2019t just going to be smooth sailing. There\u2019s possibilities and I think that\u2019s where we\u2019re at and that\u2019s why he\u2019s getting looked at.\u201d<\/p>\n The first-year coach was then asked if he\u2019s had a pow-wow with general manager Kent Hughes and vice president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton about Price\u2019s situation?<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not my job. I\u2019m coaching the team. I\u2019ll let them do their job. They have to deal with that,\u201d St. Louis said.<\/p>\n While the Canadiens \u2013 who have now lost nine straight games \u2013 have certainly not been good in front of him, Price has struggled. He\u2019s 0-4-0 with a 4.03 GAA and .853 save percentage, allowed six goals in two straight games and has let in 16 goals on 119 shots. When Carey Price\u00a0returned to start in a 3-0 loss to the New York Islanders on April 15 \u2013 and even more so when he stopped 28 of 30 Minnesota Wild shots in a 2-0 Montreal Canadiens loss \u2013 he did look somewhat like the Price that Montreal Canadiens fans have become accustomed to and fallen in love with for the last ten seasons, especially during the Habs\u2019 improbable run to the 2012 Stanley Cup Final last summer. However, in his last two starts he has clearly not been himself.<\/p>\n \t\t \t\tMarc has been covering the Habs for over a decade. He previously worked for Journal Metro, The Athletic, The … More about Marc Dumont<\/a><\/p>\n \t ![\"avatar\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768961892_163_07ba55ead0c73509df880c421e3023e5ac7c7d9f55b4c9b9a5aeeb184bcdf689.png\")
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