Montreal Canadiens: Carey Price Using Offseason to Help Kids In Need

Carey Price is helping ensure as many kids as possible get Christmas this year.

Montreal Canadiens star goaltender Carey Price is usually busy playing hockey at this time of year.

As his twitter profile explains, he is a “tender of nets and thwarter of pucks” who would, under normal circumstances, be focusing on those tasks in late November and early December.

Of course, this isn’t a normal year and Price is waiting for the NHL and NHLPA to finally agree on when next season will begin. That speculation is still up in the air and the league is suddenly trying to change the agreement they settled on just a few short months ago.

As the owners and player reps deal with that mess, Price is busy using this time off to help bring Christmas to kids in need. Price played his Junior hockey in the Western Hockey League with the Tri-City Americans. That is where the Canadiens discovered him and scouted him and decided to use the 5th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft on him.

Now, 15 years later, Price is still giving back to the area. He sent out a message to his nearly quarter of a million followers on Instagram, of him and his wife Angela, showing off their new t-shirts that helped raise money for toys for tots in the Tri-City area.

It should come as no surprise that Price is using his platform to help out those in need. Whether it be the helping provide breakfast for kids in need, sending hockey gear to his former minor hockey association or meeting with and then inviting Anderson Whitehead to the NHL Awards and All-Star Game after the young boy lost his mother to cancer.

You can find a link to the shirts here.