Carey Price

I still remember the day the Habs drafted Price. I had just bought Gary a few weeks before and was eagerly waiting to see how he would react to the Montreal picks. We were sitting in my living room drinking beer and then Trevor Timmins said “….Carey Price.” Have you ever seen a monkey have an epileptic seizure? Thank god he was wearing a diaper. It was almost as bad as Pierre McGuire’s reaction on TSN.

Fast forward to this spring. The day it was announced that Halak was going to the world hockey championship and Price was going to Hamilton. Gary seemed puzzled. He did not understand why Montreal was not sending the best goalie in the NHL (as he put it) back to help Hamilton instead of sending that unproven prospect. Price had started to grow on him after wining every possible award at the World Junior Championship but there was still a way to go.

It was after Price’s first shutout in the AHL that I first heard it… “They have to trade Halak.”

And then after Price won the AHL playoff MVP Gary went even further.

“They have to trade Huet.”

“But Gary you said they should trade Halak just a month or so ago.”

“They have to trade both. They don’t need them…they have Price.” He had that same face he does when he logs on to his favorite porn site.

He explained to me how it should go down.

First: Halak + 2^nd round pick for Vinny Lecavalier. “Halak is the best goalie in the NHL all the GM’s want him and a 2^nd round pick from Montreal is something of inestimable value."

Second: Huet + Samsonov + the rights to Aebischer for Jack Johnson + 3^rd round pick. “Johnson is unproven in the NHL that’s why they have to add the pick.”

I tried to reason with him. “Those trades arent reasonable but why don’t you wait until training camp and decide there…and why not keep Halak. Huet is a UFA at the end of the season, maybe he could be part of a trade. The best scenario would leave Montreal with Price and Halak in Montreal in 2008-2009. Unless of course an offer the team cant refuse comes along.”

This is where Gary lost interest and started throwing objects in the air running around screaming.