- AYOYE!!!
- Le PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE affirme que Carey Price est SURESTIMÉ!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Et affirme que Jaroslav Halak fait BIEN PLUS PEUR...
- Claude Julien va AFFICHER ça dans le vestiaire!!!
Conventional wisdom holds that if Montreal finds a way to upset the Penguins in the best-of-five qualifying round this summer, goalie Carey Price's fingerprints will turn up all over the victory.
He is widely regarded as one of the NHL's premier goaltenders, and a team as generally overmatched as the Canadiens figure to be against the Penguins almost certainly will have to get a performance that is flawless -- or better -- from its goalie.
But Price's glittering reputation aside, at least one of three Montreal journalists who agreed to a not-for-attribution assessment of the Canadiens with the Post feels his ability to carry Montreal past a superior opponent might be overstated in some quarters.
Exhibit A: Price's career playoff record of 25-31, which includes only one mark above .500 in eight trips to the postseason (8-4 in 2014).
"There was talk a few months ago about how people were afraid of him, in a short series ... and how he is a top goaltender in the league," the reporter said. "The two times during his tenure that they've gotten to the Eastern (Conference) final; the one year he got hurt in the round before that and the other year -- the year they beat the Penguins and then lost to Philadelphia (2010) -- that was Jaroslav Halak."