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‘I was blessed’: Carey Price reflects on a banner career cut short by injury
Carey Price’s blank facial expression told most of the story.
The Montreal Canadiens had just fallen in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final. Their season was over. The Tampa Bay Lightning were celebrating a second consecutive title down the hall.
It was July 7, 2021, and Price was hurting — both emotionally and physically — as the star goaltender dissected his team’s trying season and magical playoff run amid the COVID-19 pandemic on a video conference call with reporters.
He didn’t know it at the time, but there would be just five more games in his professional career.