I was watching the Canadiens blanking the Bruins last night, 1-0, and I got thinking, “boy, that Carey Price is really very good.”  He really doesn’t look like he’s trying very hard out there.  I know it all has to do with his positioning and his conditioning but I can’t help but miss how excitable Patrick Roy was (since everyone’s comparing Price to Roy I thought I’d pick a different angle).

In the post game interview on CBC Price was asked what he’d do with the puck from the shutout.  Price’s reply really left me with a bad taste in my mouth.  Price said, “I don’t know.  It’ll probably end up in a box with the rest of my stuff, at my parent’s house.”  Ugh.  I found that worse than the standard cliched drivel.  I would have preferred, “I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the puck.  I’m really more happy that we got the win and that we had a total team effort.”  You know, the standard sports fare.

Now contrast Price’s on camera persona with a veteran, likable, future hall-of-famer in Curtis Joseph.  After coming into a game early in relief of one of the best in the game, and shutting out the Sharks for a comeback win from 3-0, Joseph lauded his team with credit and even boasted about how good the goalie was that he replaced!  Joseph has always been, and continues to be, a class act in front of the cameras and a good interview to boot.

Looks like there is something left to learn for Carey Price.