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

Vegas Golden Knights

Any time a big name gets traded the Vegas Golden Knights find a way to get into the mix, don’t they?

In their short existence they have already traded for Max Pacioretty, Mark Stone, Jack Eichel, Robin Lehner and Alex Martinez. They have always found a way to make it work and they really could do it again with Price is they wanted to pull it off.

While Lehner is their incumbent starter, he isn’t playing his best hockey this season. He has a 3.03 GAA and a .909 SV% to go with his 9-9-0 record. That’s not what the Golden Knights are looking for and they are among the most aggressive teams in recent memory so don’t be surprised if they start looking around for an upgrade.

The problem is Lehner’s contract which has three years left on it after this season and a $5 million cap hit. If the Canadiens are rebuilding, they don’t really want that contract, but the Golden Knights might not need to dump that much cap space.

If they can get a third team involved in the deal, the Knights would only need to take on 25% of Price’s remaining contract. They could ask the Habs to retain 50% and then have a third team pick up 25% of Price’s contract as well. If would be costly for the Knights but they have not been scared to trade picks and prospects before so why start now?

The Golden Knights would likely have to give up top prospect Brendan Brisson to the Habs as well as a third round pick to the third party that eats up so much cap space for them.

Price’s contract is huge, but there are always ways to work around those things to make deals work. The Vegas Golden Knights have no problem stretching the rules as far as they can to make a trade work and they could do it again.