Reflecting on Carey Price’s Legacy

Kevin Woodley | Co-Founder & Managing Editor — InGoal Magazine | November 3, 2022 | 5 min read

Co-founder and Managing Editor of InGoal Magazine. NHL.com correspondent covering the Vancouver Canucks and author of the Unmasked series. Previously with the Associated Press, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and The Hockey News.

Carey Price set the Montreal Canadiens franchise record with 361 wins over 15 seasons, along with the 2015 Hart Trophy and Vezina Trophy.
Price's 2007 World Junior Championship performance was a defining moment for a generation of young goaltenders, including Eric Comrie who was 12 at the time.
Comrie credits Price's calmness and technical smoothness as the standard that reshaped his understanding of how the goalie position could be played.
InGoal Magazine is marking the fifth anniversary of International Goalie Day with a series on goalies Price inspired, honoring Jacques Plante's first mask on November 1.
Price's influence on goaltending extended beyond play style to equipment choices and innovative gear customization that moved the needle across the goalie world.

Eric Comrie photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire

Carey Price is still holding out hope for a medical “miracle” that will allow him to overcome the knee injury that has prevented him from playing this season, but even if the long-time Montreal Canadiens superstar never plays in the NHL again, his legacy will live on through all the goalies he inspired to play.

From the way he played, to the equipment he chose and some of the innovative ways he wore it, no one moved the needle in the goalie world like Price.

With that in mind, InGoal is celebrating the fifth anniversary of International Goalie Day, a holiday created by one of our own on November 1 in honour of Jacque Plante first donning a mask on that date, with a series of stories featuring the goalies that Price has inspired with his play. Price’s impact on goalies crossed borders and age groups, and it’s one worth celebrating, even as every goalie we talked to wished mostly to see him play again. It started with Philadelphia Flyers star Carter Hart; we continue today with Eric Comrie of the Buffalo Sabres: