"According to a ‘tweet’ by CBC news reporter Michel Godbout – Carey Price wants three million dollars a year or he’s going on strike…"
I have always been a Carey Price fan. I thought and still do think that the Habs made the right choice by trading Halak and keeping Price. Now – the Habs are running a real risk of commencing the season with Alex Auld as their starter.
The Canadiens organization has commited the same mistake that many husbands have probably done over the years – they did not make sure that their wives were absolutely satisfied at home before they added a mistress as a sidedish. In other words, they should have had an agreement with Carey – at least verbally , before they traded their star performer in the play-offs.
If the story is true then The Habs are in deep bleu,blanc et rouge doo-doo and the fans will be all over Carey when and if he starts the season. The problem is not Price however…the problem is the entire salary structure in the NHL which leaves the most astute chimpanzee shaking his head as he reads the news.
Antti Niemi won a Stanley Cup with Chicago and was awarded 2.75 million by an arbitrator. Jaroslav Halak carried the Habs on his back to the final of the Eastern Conference and he is given a contract of 3.75 million a year for four years. That is akin to awarding Pavlov’s ‘deaf dog’ the can of Alpo when he doesn’t hear the bell.
Price is somewhere in the middle here and he knows it but what makes Price think that anybody will award him that type of money when nobody seems to be knocking on Niemi’s door to pay him 2.75 million?
Carey Price is selfish. He is thinking of himself and the market in which he belongs. He is not thinking of the mistakes and the embarrassment that he caused the Habs last year and instead of thanking Bob Gainey for sticking by him and accepting what is probably a very decent offer by Mr. Gauthier, he is acting as if he was wearing Halak’s jersey this past Spring.
The Montreal Canadiens should sign Niemi at his price and let Carey go elsewhere – there is no ‘ I ‘ in team…
Just ask Tiger Woods.
This will be the one and only time that I do this – I am putting a link to a story I have already written on this subject for those that may have missed it.
http://awinninghabit.com/2010/08/02/carey-price-warning-absolutely-no-brown-ones/
Can’t say I didn’t tell you so…..