The NHL has been doing a Quarter-Century rollout, highlighting the league's best players for the past 25 years. They started the trend by forming teams for each country at the 4 Nations Face-Off, but have debuted the team for the NHL during these playoffs. There weren't many players they could choose from the Montreal Canadiens, but one goaltender stood out as one of the six best from the past 25 years. Unsurprisingly, the Canadiens' representative in the group was Carey Price.
Price was one of six goaltenders voted alongside Marc-Andre Fleury, Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Hendrik Lundqvist, and Roberto Luongo. The Quebec-born goaltenders union was strong in the group, as four of the six grew up in Montreal's province. Price was just another addition to the Quebec connection. Price's performance in the 2015 season was the highlight of his career. However, the NHL had a nice write-up about his career.
"In 15 NHL seasons from 2007-22, few were as consistent as Price. He had 10 20-win seasons and had a GAA under 2.83 12 times and a save percentage over .915 eight times. He leads the Canadiens -- a franchise that is more than 100 years old -- in wins and is third in shutouts. Price was named to the First All-Rookie Team after going 24-12-3 with a 2.56 GAA, .920 save percentage and three shutouts in 41 games (40 starts) in 2007-08, while also finishing fourth in Calder Trophy voting as NHL rookie of the year. In his final postseason in 2020-21, he was 13-9 with a 2.28 GAA and .924 save percentage to help the Canadiens advance to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 1993. He was the first player to win the Vezina, Hart and Ted Lindsay in the same season when he did so in 2014-15."
""He's the best in the world for a reason. He has been for a long time and he will be for an even longer time. It's honestly insane to put into words what he's accomplished. It's just another level.""Max Domi
A former Canadien was also on the team, although it was a bit of a controversial decision. Most of Patrick Roy's success came before 2000, but the NHL believed he did enough with the Stanley Cup victory and Conn Smythe with the Colorado Avalanche.