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AUSTON MATTHEWS - 21-22 TED LINDSAY WINNER!!!!!
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Congrats to Auston.
A belated congratulations to Auston Matthews of my Toronto Maple Leafs on his NHL awards this year.
Winner of the Calder Trophy in 2017, and Rocket Richard two years running now, Auston got his first ever Hart and Lindsay trophies this year.
#auston matthews#nhl awards 2022#hart trophy#ted lindsay award#'MVP MVP MVP MVP'#gosh those chants were crazy there in the playoffs#definitely proud of him#steven stamkos called him 'arguably one of the best players in the league'
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Auston in a suit 😍 Congrats Auston on winning the trophy 🏆
So happy for him! Very proud.
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clementine bedard
Clementine Faye Bedard
Number: 89
Season: fourth
Position: C
Height: 5”8
Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
S/C: R/L
NHL: NJD
Prev Team: Vancouver Giants
NHL
Selected 1st overall (first round) by the New Jersey Devils in the 2020 NHL Draft.
WHL
Drafted first overall in 2017, the first WHL player with exceptional status, and won the Jim Piggot Memorial Trophy as the league's top rookie player in her debut season.
International
Team Canda
2023 World Championship - Gold Medal, 13 G, 13 A, 10 GP
2022 World Championship- Silver Medal , 10 G, 11 A, 10 GP
2021 World Championship-Gold Medal, 12 G, 12 A, 10 GP
2020 World Junior Championship- Gold Medal, 11 G, 9 A, 7 GP
2019 World Junior Championship- Silver Medal, 9 G, 7 A, 7 GP
2018 World Junior Championship- Gold Medal, 10 G, 6 A, 7 GP
2017 U18 World Championship- Gold Medal, 7 G, 7 A, 7 GP
NHL
Fourth Year (2023-2024)
75 G, 69 A, 80 GP
Singed a contract for 70 millions dollars for the next nine years and three million dollar bonus.
Assistant Captain
Third Year (2022-2023)
67 G, 40 A, 76 GP
Ted Lindsay award
Assistant Captain
Second Year (2021-2022)
50 G, 35 A, 75 GP
Rookie Year (2020-2021)
30 G, 26 A, 56 P, 56 GP
Received the Rookie of the Year award.
Signed a Contract for 12 Million dollars for three years and a 1 million dollar signing bonus.
WHL
2019-2020
Vancouver Giants
30 G, 25 A, 28 GP
Bob Clarke Throphy
Four Broncos Memorial Trophy
Captain
Draft Year
2018-2019
Vancouver Giants
78 G, 77 A, 72 GP
Four Broncos Memorial Trophy
Won the WHL Championship
2017-2018
Vancouver Giants
53 G, 67 A, 72 GP
Rookie of the Year
Four Broncos Memorial Trophy
Before WHL
2016-2017
West Van Academic Prep U 18
65 G, 40 A, 50 GP
2015-2016
West Van Academic Prep U 15
50 G, 36 A, 45 GP
Personal
• Born August 31, 2002
• Daughter of Melanie and Jim Bedard
• Has two siblings Connor and Madison Bedard.
#clementinebedard#cb89#connor bedard x reader#jack hughes x reader#nhl x reader#jack hughes#jh86#luke hughes#quinn hughes#quinn hughes x reader#nico hischier x reader#luke hughes x reader#alex holtz x reader#alex holtz#new jersey devils#jesper bratt#dawson mercer#timo meier#john marino#connor bedard
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Okay so i went in depth about some of Bucky's hockey stats and habits as a goal tender with @1343-40 BUT i gotta talk about Gale "One Engine" Cleven (Aka Clevy, AKA Buck) for a second
so i imagine he's about 5 years into his NHL career. A cup under his belt, not quite a seasoned vet, not quite a rookie. He could still be argued as up-and-coming and has won a lot of awards but theres a lotta people who think he's overrated, over hyped. Bit of a candy-ass when it comes to taking hits and standing up to the bigger players (not that Austin is itty bitty but he's small for a hockey player)
so anyways by year Five Gale is playing a solid 78-82 games. He's the main guy, hes the superstar. Got his nickname "One Engine" cause he skated and scored with one broken off skate
Stats(Cumulative): 146 goals, SOLID 350 assists, (What can i say hes a giver) He's got a really low PIM; mostly nonviolent calls so Holding, maybe some accidental high-sticks and obstruction. He's an ace on the Powerplay (58 PPG, 140 PPA) but struggles with his SHG (we'll put it at a solid ONE TIME) ,again because of his size. if he doesn't have enough players playing interference the other team roughs him up easy.
he's got a respectably 24 game winning goals by now, a stanley cup and a closet of trophies:
Art Ross, Hart memorial, Ted Lindsay. ALMost snags the Messier but I think Curt gets it instead. Maurice Richard and 2 Conn Smythes
#mostly fudged from Sid stats cause i just know him best#picture me doing SOOO much math it was so hard be proud#mota hockey au#i think he could manage all those trophies by year 5 but thats the part im least sure about
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Penguins to retire Jaromir Jagr’s No. 68 during pre-game ceremony on Feb. 18
By Pittsburgh Penguins
November 10, 2023
The Pittsburgh Penguins will raise two-time Stanley Cup Champion Jaromir Jagr’s no. 68 jersey to the rafters at PPG Paints Arena on February 18 versus the Los Angeles Kings as part of a pre-game celebration, it was announced today by the club.
As part of the ‘Celebrate 68’ festivities, all fans in attendance that night will receive a replica Jagr No. 68 banner. In addition, a commemorative Jagr bobblehead has been added as a giveaway to all fans in attendance on Thursday, March 14 versus the San Jose Sharks.
Jagr, whose NHL career spanned over two decades, is one of the most accomplished players in NHL history and a member of the league’s ‘100 Greatest Players.’ In 1,733 career regular-season games, the 6-foot-3, 230-pound winger scored 766 goals, 1,155 assists and 1,921 points. He ranks fourth all-time in games played and goals, fifth in assists, and only Wayne Gretzky (2,857) has recorded more points than him. No player in NHL history has more game-winning goals than Jagr’s 135.
Drafted by Pittsburgh in the first round (5th overall) of the 1990 NHL Draft, Jagr spent the first 11 seasons of his 24-year NHL career with the Penguins, appearing in 806 regular-season games notching 439 goals, 640 assists, 1,079 points, 78 game-winning goals and was plus-208. He is in the top-5 in franchise history in games played (5th), goals (4th), assists (4th), points (4th), plus/minus (2nd) and game-winning goals (4th). He was one of 13 captains in team history, serving in the role from 1998-01.
Jagr was an instrumental piece of Pittsburgh’s back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships in 1991 and ’92 – his first two seasons in the NHL. In that two-year span, Jagr suited up for 45 postseason contests, notching 37 points (14G-23A), which was sixth in the NHL over that stretch. Jagr shined during the 1992 Stanley Cup playoffs, recording a playoff career-high 24 points (11G-13A) in 21 games. In total, Jagr has dressed in 208 Stanley Cup Playoff contests, accumulating 201 points (78G-123A). He is one of just six players in NHL history with 200 or more playoff points.
The 10-time NHL All-Star has won a plethora of awards over the course of his NHL career. He is a five-time Art Ross Trophy winner (NHL Scoring Leader – 1995, ’98, ’99, ‘00, ’01), three-time Ted Lindsay Award winner (Most Outstanding Player – 1999, ’00, ’06), and was the recipient of the Hart Trophy (NHL MVP) in 1998-99 and Bill Masterton Trophy (Perseverance, Sportsmanship, and Dedication to Ice Hockey) in 2015-16. Jagr was named to the NHL’s First All-Star Team seven times (1995, ’96, ’98, ’99, ’00, ’01, ’06), the Second All-Star Team in 1996-97 and was a member of the All-Rookie Team in 1990-91.
Throughout NHL history, only Chris Chelios (26), Gordie Howe (26) and Mark Messier (25) have played more seasons in the NHL than Jagr’s 24. Of his 24 seasons, he notched 20-plus goals 19 times and 30-plus goals 15 times, which both rank third in league history. He’s also hit the 100-point plateau five times, and was the sixth-oldest player in NHL history to accomplish that feat during the 2005-06 season at 34 years and 31 days old.
The native of Kladno, Czechia has multiple accolades on the international stage. He’s won a gold medal (1998) and bronze medal (2006) at the Olympic Games, two gold medals (2005, ’10) and two bronze medals (1990, 2011) at the IIHF World Championship and a bronze medal at the 1990 IIHF World Junior Championship. Jagr is one of just 30 players in history to join the Triple Gold Club, which includes winning a Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal and an IIHF World Championship gold medal. He and Jiri Slegr are the only two players of Czech descent to accomplish this feat.
Jagr currently owns Rytiri Kladno of the Czech Extraliga and has been majority owner of the team since 2011-12.
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Weird writer ask game - 🐺💣👑🔔🏛️
🐺 Build a NHL starting line up (3F, 2D, 1G) based on a really weird criteria for comedic effect (e.g. guys with names that sound like Dylan).
please be glad i didn't choose a starting lineup of guys with names that could or do lead to sex-related nicknames. anyway here's guys with two first names.
nick paul - robert thomas - jack quinn
matt roy - dennis gilbert
devon levi
💣 Blow it up: pick one NHL team. Change its name, mascot, logo/colors. Tell me why you chose the new elements.
okay chicago is the obvious choice here but i don't feel like being obvious. the chicago nhl team should rebrand in real life. actually they should probably be folded in real life. but that's not a fun meme answer. my second thought was the flames, because they didn't rebrand when they relocated and now have a team name that has nothing to do with their location, but it's been decades and has led to local and affiliated spinoff names (the heat, the inferno, rip to them both).
all this to say: im rebranding the jets. i don't like the military so they get a new theme. i think they could really lean into the north thing, since they do it in a lot of their marketing anyway. i know fuckall about winnipeg but idc. i think a cool tundra animal would be the move here. it's a bummer the moose are already their ahl team or obviously i'd pick that but maybe the grizzlies. yes that's already an nba team but it's fine, the jets are also an nfl team so it's a wash. mascot is a grizzly bear obviously. named northy or something to lean into the far north of it all. they can call the arena the den.
colorswise ... ooh the jets colors suck. imho. they're way too muted! brighten up that maroon, maybe go all the way into purple. a kind of reddish purple maybe, and then brighten up the blue. yellow as an accent? i am NOT a color theory gal, we're hoping this is something. please do not tell me if it isn't
👑 If you could add an award to the NHL awards, what would it be and who would be its inaugural recipient?
there are lots of good and serious awards that should be added but EYE think that we should add another really arbitrary poorly defined one like the lady byng. what does it mean to be gentlemanly? we won't be defining that.
so in that vein: i think there should be a reverse lady byng. a grittiness award. a sandpaper award. i think the arguments about it would be really funny. brady tkachuk is a strong contender, sure, but maybe he takes too many penalties. sandpaper, yes, but is he leaving his team shorthanded too much? can you be gritty without getting penalized? who's a good example of that? i am simply here for the endless trivial discourse. anyway i think brady is the inaugural recipient despite the objections. i am taking name suggestions for this award.
🔔 Who is an NHL player you are convinced you can best in a physical altercation?
i think i could take johnny gaudreau. i'm taller than him and i weigh more than him and he gives me more would not hit a girl vibes than some of the other little guys. and i do think i would need the edge of him being reluctant to hit a girl because they are all extremely fit.
🏛️ Here, have a soap box. What is one thing you feel really strongly about that you think everyone should know?
ooh i've got awards on the mind so! i think people should be more thoughtful about the distinctions between most valuable player and most outstanding player! if you don't have both awards then sure i can understand the conflation but the nhl does have separate awards for those things and i think letting them be meaningfully different would be a lot of fun. give the ted lindsay to cmcd every year except for like once every four years when auston matthews or nikita kucherov gets it, but an actual debate every year about which player was the biggest individual difference maker on their team would be compelling. setting my own biases about last season's awards aside, i think that opens the door for more acknowledgement of season-changing goaltending performances (shesterkin in 21-22 perhaps). the hart and the lindsay don't need to be so closely tied! let them be different things!
oh also while we're on the topic it is beyond stupid that it's basically impossible to win the hart unless your team makes the playoffs. "oh the team didn't make the playoffs how valuable can that player really be" idk chucklehead, there are math people who can approximate a player's value in standings points, probably. do i trust their math? not entirely. but i trust it enough to know that argument is bunkum.
#sorry for having real sports thoughts on my sports fanfiction blog#my toxic trait is i actually have real sports opinions that i feel serious about#ask meme
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okay so im reading up on price and i have a question:
why is everyone so mean to the guy??? Like i dont know shit abt hockey but all that hate seems a little…unwarranted…?
wait wait wait
which price
MY price???
Are people in the year of our lord 2023 being mean to carey price?
whatever you are reading stop reading it
carey price is one of the greatest goalies to ever play hockey and i will stand by that
he's won gold in the world juniors, in the olympics, and the world cup, he's been given the Hart Trophy (for most valuable player in the league), Vezina Trophy (best goaltender in the league) and Ted Lindsay Award (for "most astounding player in the league" as voted by the other members of the players association), and i believe was actually the first goalie to win all three, and he's also broken a bunch of other hockey records
he grew up in rural BC where there weren't even any rinks so his dad cleared up part of a creek so he could have ice to practice on
he's also indigenous, and considering ice hockey was almost certainly inspired by indigenous sports there really are not very many indigenous players, and he's sort of spoken about that before, and i know been important for the community that he comes from,
also he's a funny goofy guy and so incredible to watch play i swear to god, like there is no goalie who plays like he plays, like numbers aside he was just such a joy and i adore him
look he got injured and he never was quite able to come back fully from that, and last season or the season before he was struggling with substance abuse issues (almost certainly because they were pumping him full of pain killers so he could play through his injuries) and he went to get treatment for it, and this year at the draft he forgot some kids last name BUT like, there is no reason to be mean to him in my books and if people are then maybe they are leafs fans who are salty that he like literally destroyed them in 2021
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NHL AWARDS 2023
San Jose Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson and Boston Bruins forward David Pastrnak were the other finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award, which was voted on before the postseason began.
"Congratulations to 'Pasta' and Erik, two outstanding seasons, it's so fun to watch you guys play," McDavid said accepting the award.
"I want to say thank you to Mr. Lindsay for giving players a voice and all you've done for players in the past and present. I want to say thank you to all the players around the League, this award is obviously voted on by you guys, I've been up here a few times to accept this. I'm so honored I feel like this is the most prestigious award we give out tonight, so thank you guys so much, it's a privilege to share the ice with you guys.
"Lastly to all you hockey fans out there, even you Flames fans: You guys bring the energy to all the buildings across the League, it's special to play in front of you every night. And to all the Oiler fans, Edmonton is a historic place to play, you guys are the most passionate fans in the League and it's a privilege to play in front of you guys. Thank you."
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Cameron Hart Character Bio
Now that you have gotten to meet Cameron in the present day, I thought it would be fun to share a little more background on him like I did for Jordan a couple weeks ago :)
Cameron Matthew Hart was born on January 9th 1993 (Capricorn, he's v much a Capricorn) to Gordon & Wendy Hart, making him 27 at the start of In the Wreckage (yes, it begins in 2020; no, COVID does not exist in this little fictional universe).
Cameron was born and raised in the Richmond Hill Area of Toronto, but he is a dual Canadian and American citizen. His mom is American and grew up outside of Philadelphia. His parents met in New York City when they were both living and working there.
Cameron is the youngest of three children. His brother Nate is 5 years older than him and his sister Jessica is 3 years older. He is the only one of his siblings who was not born in the US, his family moved to Canada when his mom was pregnant with him. You'll learn a little more about his family dynamics as the story continues.
Phyiscal Traits (Disregard if you like to create your own headcannon, I won't be offended):
Hair Color: Dirty Blonde
Eye Color: Light Blue
Height: 6'0" according to his official NHL stats, but really he's more like 5'10.5"
Weight: 187 according to his NHL stats, but he has lost weight/muscle since his injury
Hockey Career Info:
Position: Center
Draft Info: Entered the draft in 2011; was drafted 1st overall by the NJ Devils
Juniors: Spent 2 seasons in the OHL playing for the London Knights (2009 - 2011) (this is where he met Jordan Davis)
AHL: Did not spend any time in the AHL
NHL: Spent his entire playing career for the NJ Devils; 2011 - 2019 (Career ending injury occurred in early March 2019)
Team Leadership: Was made captain at the start of the 2013 season
Awards: Calder, 4x Art Ross, 3x Hart Memorial Trophy, 2x Ted Lindsay
LMK if there are any other Cameron facts you want to know and, so long as they're not spoilers, I'm happy to share!!
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2022 Ted Lindsay award winner
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Carey Price seeks to redefine what it means to win, on and off the ice
Oct 25, 2022 (x)
What could wind up being one of the last saves of Carey Price’s career was notable because it was so spectacular, and therefore unusual.
In the third period of the Montreal Canadiens’ final game of the 2021-22 season, with his team up 8-1 on the Florida Panthers, Price’s former teammate Ben Chiarot let go of a shot from the slot labeled for the far corner. Price flung his trapper out and caught the puck before proceeding to do a big windmill with it, applying not only mustard, but also ketchup and relish on what was already a good save in a meaningless game.
Price looked at Chiarot and flashed him a smile. He was having fun with it.
But saves like these are not what made Price one of the best goaltenders of his generation. It was the lack of saves like these that did that; his ability to make difficult saves look easy, his silky smooth mobility within his crease that made it so he was often in position before the puck even arrived, allowing it to hit him and land harmlessly in front of him where he could immediately cover it up.
His rebound control was pinpoint accurate, rarely resulting in a second chance opportunity for his opponent. Once at practice for Team Canada during the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, assistant coach Bill Peters was concerned that he didn’t have enough pucks for the next drill while standing in the corner next to Price’s net. When Price learned of Peters’ predicament while doing the current drill in progress, he steered the next seven or eight shots he faced directly into Peters’ corner of the ice.
“Do you have enough now?” Price asked Peters.
What defined Price, what made him unique, was his ability to make the difficult look simple, the impossible look mundane. It is why every teammate he’s ever had has always marveled at his calm demeanor in net, and why every opponent he’s ever faced seemed intimidated by that same demeanor.
Whereas Dominik Hasek used his athleticism to flop all over his crease and perform miracles, Price used his to make it seem like he wasn’t even trying.
“That is a byproduct of, ever since I was a kid, my dad always preached that you’re trying to eliminate unnecessary movements out there, to be as efficient as possible,” Price said. “So ever since I was a kid, that’s kind of been my mindset. Yeah, you’re going to put a little bit of salt and pepper on one on Saturday night, probably. But for the most part, I’ve always just tried to be as efficient as possible.”
Salt and pepper, see, was not the norm. Except when certain occasions called for it. Like that save on Chiarot in Price’s last game, perhaps, of his career.
“Oh yeah, that was jerk chicken, that one,” Price said with a laugh. “We had a good laugh about that after.”
There have been many great goaltenders since Price entered the NHL in 2007, but perhaps none played the most chaotic position in the game with as much calm and as little panic as Carey Price, which is why he comes in at No. 88 on our list of the best players in the modern era of the NHL. It is what set him apart, what made him unique, and what made teammates everywhere feel an unusual sense of confidence in their team’s ability to win that night.
And this was never more evident than during the 2014-15 season, when Price put together one of the greatest goaltending performances in NHL history. He played 66 games that season and allowed more than two goals just 20 times, winning the Hart and Vezina trophies and the Ted Lindsay Award.
“It was a strange confidence,” Canadiens teammate Brendan Gallagher said of playing in front of Price that year. “If you were able to score three goals in a night, you would win. If your power play could score a goal, if you could win special teams, if you could chip in and find a way to score, we were going to win that game.”
But it wasn’t just his Canadiens teammates who felt that. It was also Price’s teammates on one of the most dominant international teams ever put together, the 2014 Canadian team at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where Price had a .972 save percentage and 0.59 goals against average in five games.
“That is why he was so good, because he’s so calm and under control in the net,” said Los Angeles Kings defenseman and Sochi teammate Drew Doughty. “You literally never think anything is going to get by him. He’s probably the calmest goalie I played in front of.”
And the impact that calm could have on opponents was intimidating.
Rick Nash, another of Price’s teammates in Sochi, recalled discussing how to beat Price with a teammate on the bench. Based on Nash’s experience of having seemingly perfect shots, shots that felt unstoppable when they left his stick, die somewhere on Price’s chest pad, he suggested that the most efficient way to beat Price was to fan on your shot.
“Carey almost knew where you were going to shoot it,” Nash said. “So how’s he supposed to know where you’re shooting if even you don’t know where you’re shooting? Sometimes if you don’t know where you’re going, that’s the best way to beat him.”
It could get in your head, the effortlessness of it all.
“He just did everything as close to perfect as perfect can get,” said Dallas Stars forward Jamie Benn, another teammate in Sochi. “So technically sound, he’s a great athlete. He didn’t really have too many weaknesses, if any.”
For Price, that effortlessness was a mirage. There was effort behind everything he did, it just wasn’t the kind of effort you could see, because it was happening behind the scenes.
It was happening in his mind.
“I know over the course of my career, like, every player gets nervous. If you don’t, you’re dead,” Price said. “So I don’t know, I think some of it was a conscious decision (to look calm), but it’s also when I’m doing something, I get extremely focused on what I’m doing. … I just am really good at zoning in on a goal and going all in on it.”
Carey Price hoping for a miracle in bid to make unlikely NHL return.
Price was never quite as zoned in as he was from 2013-14 to 2016-17, a four-season span where an argument could be made he was the best hockey player in the world.
Over that span, Price’s save percentage was .928, by far the best among goalies who played at least 150 games. The next best save percentage was the .922 put up by Cam Talbot and Sergei Bobrovsky. That is a six-point gap between the best goalie and the next-best goalie. If you work backwards from Talbot and Bobrovsky, there were 19 goalies who fell within the same gap that separated Price and the second-best goalie over that span.
As a point of comparison, Sidney Crosby was the most offensively productive player in the NHL over those four seasons with 362 points, 34 points clear of Patrick Kane in second place. If you work back from Kane, you would have only six players fall within that same 34-point gap.
In terms of separating himself from the pack, what Price did over those years was unmatched.
“He’s had an amazing career,” Crosby said. “There’s a lot of pressure that comes with being the goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and he handled it well and delivered on all the expectations that were on him.”
The past tense Crosby used there is what Price is trying to cope with.
A debilitating knee injury risks prematurely ending Price’s career. He’s not quite there yet, but Price knows he will need a miracle to avoid this outcome. His career resume is glittered in international gold — World Junior Championship, Olympics, World Cup — but there is a definite lack of silverware. The Stanley Cup is something Price has always wanted, and it doesn’t look like something he will get, at least not as a player.
He came close in 2021 when he led the Canadiens on an improbable run to the final, but in chasing that elusive Cup, Price knowingly put the rest of his career in jeopardy because he had never been so close to his dream. Both he and Shea Weber played through injuries they knew they might never come back from.
“I knew,” Gallagher said. “To what extent, maybe not. But I knew. I don’t know if everyone knew. There are certain times throughout the playoffs where things would slow down, and you’d be alone and they kind of open up and talk to you a little bit. You don’t ask too many questions, but I knew where Pricey was at, and I knew Webby, what he had gone through and that he was at the end as well. I knew it was bad. Pricey, I just knew.”
Price, however, seems to be at peace.
“Well, yeah, it’s something that I wanted to do but I’m also, I think I’m more looking at it from a perspective of I’m very thankful for the career that I had,” Price said. “I had a long career of success. As an athlete, you’re always driven, goal orientated. It’s something that you’ve wanted to achieve your whole life. And it’s like, well, no, it didn’t happen, but on the other side of the coin, a goal of a hockey player is also to play in the NHL. And that’s something that I was really blessed to be able to do for, really, an extraordinary length of time.”
Even though Price might not realize it, he did win.
Except that victory came off the ice.
Price was asked if he remembered the moment from 2021, the one when he realized he needed help.
The answer came immediately.
“Yeah I do,” he responded. “It would have been October 3, and waking up, I was in a pretty bad place. And I was just like, you know what? This isn’t working for me; it’s not working for my family.”
That morning, Price recalled, was the sixth or seventh in a row where he woke up still feeling the effects of what he drank the night before.
It was a Sunday, Price remembers, and by the following Thursday, Oct. 7, he voluntarily entered the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program and admitted himself into a residential rehabilitation facility.
Price was given the opportunity during our conversation to avoid this topic, to keep the details of his battle with alcohol private. But he wanted to talk about it because he knows how much good came from him simply announcing he was seeking help.
So, yes, he was willing to talk about it, wanted to even.
“I think most of it, I see it in sports and high stress positions, there’s a lot of pressure on athletes these days, I think even more so with social media, media attention, you’re always under the microscope,” Price began. “And I think no matter how good you are at dealing with it, it’s still a weight on your mind, the pressure to perform. It’s not easy to do that day in, day out. Yeah, it’s a fun job, but you’re still doing a job and having to perform at a peak level every day. It’s something that you strive to do as an athlete, you enjoy doing it, but it’s not particularly easy to do, especially when things aren’t going well. And I feel like a way to escape that for a lot of athletes is having fun, having a good time. It’s very prominent in sports. And if you can really manage that, I think it’s really good to go out and have a good time with your teammates. I think it’s great team bonding to be able to get together, have a party, but you get to a point where you’re not having fun anymore.
“I think after we lost in the (2021) Finals and coming so close to a goal and having a surgery, and knowing that I’m right on the 18th hole (of my career) here, I was not a happy person, I wasn’t being a good father. I was drinking a lot. I just got to a point where I was like, I’m not even having fun doing this. Like, what am I doing? I felt like I was getting to a point in my life where I had to make a decision. And substance abuse has been a very big issue in First Nations communities. I’ve had friends and family that have passed away from it. So, I could have done this privately. Nobody ever would have known about it. But at the end of the day, I was like, if I’m dealing with it, if I can lead by example and show that it’s OK to reach out for help. … Maybe I could have gone out and stopped on my own. Yeah, maybe. But at the end of the day, I wanted to be able to show it’s OK to ask for help.”
There’s a lot to unpack there. But we should begin with him mentioning how alcohol has ravaged First Nations communities in this country, how it has touched people he loves, because instilling a sense of pride in Indigenous peoples in Canada is important to Price. Always has been.
He is well aware how much he means not only to the Ulkatcho First Nation, the people his mother Lynda has led as chief, the people he grew up with, but to all Indigenous people across Canada.
When Price was given the biggest platform of his career at the 2015 NHL Awards, when he accepted the one award he was basically guaranteed to win that year, the Vezina Trophy, he sent that message loud and clear.
“I would like to take a moment to encourage First Nations youth,” Price said on stage in Las Vegas that night. “A lot of people would say that it is very improbable that I would make it to this point in my life. I’ve made it here because I wasn’t discouraged. I’ve worked hard to get here, took advantage of every opportunity that I had, and I’d really like to encourage First Nations youth to be leaders in their communities, be proud of your heritage and don’t be discouraged from the improbable.”
That sentiment has not changed for Price, especially in light of how Canada is coming to grips with its past horrors and how they impacted First Nations peoples.
“Well, I’ll just come out and say, starting with the residential schools, I grew up knowing about it, obviously my grandmother went to one, but I don’t think I really comprehended how unknown it was,” Price said. “When I started playing with Canadian hockey players, especially over the last few years where it’s really come to the surface, young Canadians not even knowing what a residential school was. It was like, ‘Oh, you didn’t know that?’ And then I go back and think, going through social studies classes and stuff like that, it was just never brought up.
“Being a role model for young Natives was always something that I had in mind because I was always constantly reminded of that. I’ve received so much support from First Nations communities across Canada. I receive letters in the mail, young fans, and even older fans, they go out of their way to come to Montreal to come watch us even just practice. I’ve always known that and kept that in mind.”
So that is one part of why Price felt the need to be so public with his own struggles. But his desire to help does not end there.
A few years ago, the Canadiens were in Dallas to face the Stars and were out at a bar when Price had a conversation that stuck with him. He spoke to his then-teammate Nate Thompson, who has also battled drugs and alcohol, and asked questions about how he was able to be in a bar without drinking, how he managed his sobriety, lots of things.
“I think he was kind of feeling it out with me and asking how it was,” Thompson said. “He was saying maybe it might be a possibility of him doing something like that, and he was just asking me questions and was very curious.”
Thompson, who celebrated six years of sobriety on Oct. 10, has been open about his journey in the hopes it helps other people. But that took some time, and seeing Price reach the same point makes him proud.
“I needed to get a year of sobriety before I could feel comfortable being open about it, and everyone’s different,” Thompson said. “Some guys want to keep it private, and some guys want to be open about it. I think for me, the biggest thing that helped me be open about it was to realize that with our platform, with my platform, with Carey’s platform, this thing’s bigger than us. It’s not just a problem that’s happening with athletes, this is a problem that’s happening all over the world that people are dealing with day in and day out.
“I think being able to carry a message that is so strong and so powerful, for people to see that, and especially coming from a guy like him, from Carey Price, that’s going to help a ton of people.”
Price entered the residential rehabilitation facility on Oct. 7, and there have been challenges since.
“Once I left the facility, like that first three months, it’s something new, you’re excited about it. But that next six months, I felt like it was on my mind a lot, I was thinking about it a lot,” Price said. “Not to say that I was ready to jump off the wagon, but I can see why the success rate, it’s not that great. Going through that, I was like, ‘Well, yeah, I can see why.’ But I also have my kids at home every day. And I’m like, well, if not for them, then … first and foremost, you do it for yourself. But I look at my kids every day and to be able to not be wasting mornings of my life anymore and be able to wake up on Sunday morning and cook my kids pancakes is something very fulfilling to me.
“And since then, I would say over the last few months, the last couple of months especially, I’ve gone to weddings, I’ve gone to team parties and stuff like that. I think once you kind of get over your own social anxiety, that’s when you start feeling comfortable with just being yourself. I feel socially awkward sometimes and I feel like I just used (alcohol) as a bit of a crutch. Lately, I feel like I’m just totally fine with just being myself, not drinking, just being comfortable, just being present.”
This is where the help Price chose to seek comes in because he learned how to cope with and alter the lifestyle he had created for himself. As he said, perhaps he could have done that on his own, but getting help made that process much easier.
“It’s all about forming new habits and a new thought process,” Price said. “Like, every time we would have a social event, for me it was like, ‘You’re drinking, you’re having a beer, it’s just a social thing, it’s what you do.’ You’re creating a pattern, and it takes a long time to break a pattern.
“I learned that while I was at that facility; you create a path and once you stray from that path, you might be bushwhacking for a little while, but eventually you create a new path.”
This is the big win for Price, not only being able to face this affliction but being able to share it publicly. But he wants it to be known that he had to get help before he could help others.
“It was a great thing, it’s awesome, but that’s not to glorify what I was doing before,” Price said. “You have to be doing some bad stuff, not living life well, to be able to turn that around.
“I think that’s the biggest message, you have the rest of your life to live. Live it well.”
Price has had a tremendous career. He will likely wind up in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He holds just about every major goaltending record in Canadiens franchise history. But more important than any of that has been Price’s willingness to help others through his own experience, something he has done throughout his career with First Nations peoples and is now doing for people who struggle with substance use.
No, Carey Price never won a Stanley Cup. But no one could ever say he is not a winner.
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brinley matthews
Brinley Amelia Matthews
Number: 11
Season: Seventh
Position: D
Height: 5”11
Hometown: Arizona
S/C: R
NHL: MTL
Prev Team: USNTDP
NHL
• Selected First overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2017 NHL Draft.
International
Team USA
•2017 World Championship- Gold, 8 G, 10 A, 7 GP
•2017 World Junior Championship- Gold, 9 G, 9 A, 7 GP
•2016 World Junior Championship-Gold, 6 G, 11 A, 7 GP
•2015 World U-18 Hockey Challenge- Gold Medal, 6 G, 10 A, 7 GP
•2014 World U-17 Hockey Challenge- Gold Medal, 5 G, 11 A, 6 GP
Seventh Season (2023-2024)
Montreal Canadians
50 G, 102 A, 152 P, 80 GP
Captain.
Received James Norris Memorial Trophy.
Received Hart Memorial Trophy.
Sixith Season (2022-2023)
Montreal Canadians
35 G, 91 A, 126 P, 68 GP
Captain.
Received James Norris Memorial Trophy.
Received Ted Lindsay Award.
Fifth Season (2021-2022)
Montreal Canadians
30 G, 90 A, 120 P, 72 GP
Captain.
Received Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award.
Fourth Season (2020-2021)
Montreal Canadians
33 G, 99 A, 132 P, 87 GP
Alternative Captain.
Received James Norris Memorial Trophy.
Received Hart Memorial Trophy.
Received Art Ross Trophy.
Third Season (2019-2020)
Montreal Canadians
15 G, 42 A, 57 P, 40 GP
Alternative Captain.
Received James Norris Memorial Trophy.
Signed a Contract for 72 Million dollars for Seven years and a 5 million dollar signing bonus.
Second Season (2018-2019)
Montreal Canadians
21 G, 80 A, 101 P, 79 GP
Alternative Captain.
Rookie Season (2017-2018)
Montreal Canadians
19 G, 80 A, 99 P, 84 GP
Received the Rookie of the Year award.
Signed a Contract for 9 Million dollars for two years and a 1 million dollar signing bonus.
Before the NHL
Played two seasons with the USNTDP.
Totaled 220 points (80-160--240) in 125 games with the USNTDP, the most assists ever in USNTDP history and the most points ever scored by a defensive player.
Scored points (40-80--120) in 63 games in 2015-2016, played with the U-17 and U-18 Teams.
Scored points (40-80--120) in 62 games with the U18 team in 2016-2017.
Personal
Born January 2, 1999
Daughter Brian and Ema Matthew
Has three siblings Alexandria, Auston, Breyana
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Eri palkintojen omistajat paljastettiin
Vuoden 2023 NHL Awards jaetaan suorana Nashvillen Bridgestone Arenalla klo 20.00, ja ne ovat nähtävillä televisiossa ja muissa ohjelmissa.
Tapahtumassa palkitaan runkosarjan parhaat pelaajat, mukaan lukien arvokkain pelaaja, paras maalivahti, erinomainen puolustava pelaaja ja erinomainen tulokas. Myös Ted Lindsay -palkinto, joka myönnetään vuosittain NHLPA:n äänestämälle "paras parhaimmalle pelaajalle", jaetaan. Sanotaan, että sinä iltana palkintojenjakotilaisuudessa esiintyy myös erikoisvieraita, odotellaan sitä yhdessä. Ted Lindsay Award -palkinnon saaja on Conor McDavid Edmonton Oilers pelipaita. Ei vaikuttanut järkyttävältä, että kaveri teki noin biljoonaa pistettä. Calder Trophyn kunniakas juoksija on Marty Berniers Irving NHL pelipaidat. Kaikkien aikojen ensimmäinen Kraken-pelaajan voittaja, NHL:n maalintekijän tulokas.
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Är han den mest framstående spelaren?
Edmonton Oilers - Mike David, den här säsongen har spelat en fjärdedel av NHL:s berömvärda statistik, Edmonton Oilers center gjorde 153 poäng, det mesta sedan säsongen 1995-96 Mario Lemieux från Pittsburgh Penguins gjorde sina flest poäng sedan han gjorde 161 poäng.
McDavid, i Edmonton Oilers tröjor, vann Rocket Richard Trophy med 64 mål och ledde ligan i assist med 89, och blev bara den tredje spelaren i NHL:s historia att leda i alla tre kategorierna under en enda säsong. Det har varit en otrolig säsong. Ledarskapet i laget fortsätter att växa, att vara exalterad när andra gör bra ifrån sig, och han är elit inom många olika områden. 26-åringen förväntas vinna sin tredje Hart Trophy, som delas ut till NHL:s mest värdefulla spelare, och Ted Lindsay Award, som röstas fram av NHL och tilldelas NHL:s mest framstående spelare.
McDavid i den ljusa matchtröjor hockey är på eftersom han kan göra saker i toppfart som andra behöver stanna upp och tänka på. Hans instinkter, smarta spel och förmåga att spela med stor hastighet är oöverträffad.
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bester Spieler der Saison？
Edmonton Oilers – Mike David, in dieser Saison hat er ein Viertel der lobenswerten NHL-Statistik gespielt, der Center der Edmonton Oilers erzielte 153 Punkte, die meisten seit der Saison 1995/96. Mario Lemieux von den Pittsburgh Penguins erzielte seine meisten Punkte seit 161.
McDavid im nhl trikots gewann die Rocket Richard Trophy mit 64 Toren und führte die Liga mit 89 Assists an. Damit war er erst der dritte Spieler in der NHL-Geschichte, der in einer einzigen Saison in allen drei Kategorien an der Spitze stand. Es war eine unglaubliche Saison. Die Führung des Teams wächst weiter, er freut sich, wenn andere gute Leistungen erbringen, und er gehört in vielen verschiedenen Bereichen zur Elite. Es wird erwartet, dass der 26-Jährige seine dritte Hart Trophy gewinnt, die an den wertvollsten Spieler der NHL verliehen wird, sowie den Ted Lindsay Award, über den die NHL abstimmt und der an die herausragendste Spielervereinigung der NHL verliehen wird.
McDavid im hellen NHL trikot Edmonton Oilers ist auf dem Höhepunkt, weil er mit Höchstgeschwindigkeit Dinge tun kann, über die andere Leute nachdenken müssen. Seine Instinkte, sein geschicktes Spiel und seine Fähigkeit, mit großer Geschwindigkeit zu spielen, sind unübertroffen.
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