Montreal Canadiens: Three Teams Who Could Pull Off a Carey Price Trade

The Montreal Canadiens have gone from Stanley Cup Final to 30th overall in the standings in a real hurry.

The team is off to its worst start ever, which is a long time when you are the oldest franchise in the sport. It has already resulted in some changes as general manager Marc Bergevin and his assistant, Trevor Timmins were fired over the weekend.

Jeff Gorton has been brought in to take over the front office and more changes are coming as a general manager search is underway. But will bigger on-ice changes be coming as well?

According to TSN Insider Pierre LeBrun, other teams will be interested in finding out just how deep the rebuild that Jeff Gorton is about to set out on will be. One player that would be difficult to trade for many reasons, but would seek the attention of other teams, is Carey Price. LeBrun mentioned some contending teams are already trying to gauge the interest in dealing Price.

It would be complicated though, for many reasons. For one, Price has not played yet this season due to injuries and off-ice issues related to substance use. He was in the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program for the month of October and though he is back with the team he is just skating slowly on his own at this point.

He also has a no-movement clause that makes it more difficult to move him. Price would have to be fully on board with a trade and sign off on his no-move clause to let it happen.

Also, there is his enormous contract. Price makes $10.5 million this season and will continue to earn that much against the cap for four more seasons. Finding a team that can fit that in would be nearly impossible, so the team’s would have to get creative to make a deal work.

With all those roadblocks in place, which teams could possibly pull off a Price trade?