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Carey Price has left Montreal, role with Habs expected to bring him back part-time

by Lorraine Carpenter

The former Habs goalie is reportedly looking into buying property downtown to facilitate an undetermined job with the team.

Habs goalie extraordinaire Carey Price is officially leaving Montreal this morning, moving out of his South Shore home to relocate his family to the house they built last year in Kelowna, B.C. After being placed on LTIR last September following a full season of unsuccessful knee rehab, Price and his wife Angela made the decision to go through with their post-hockey plan to move to the West Coast to be closer to their parents and have their three children start their new lives in Kelowna.

Price’s contract with the Montreal Canadiens runs through 2026, and following his coaching of Samuel Montembeault ahead of the IIHF World Championships in May (which Canada won with significant help from the current Habs goalie), there has been considerable speculation that Price will transition into goalie coaching and/or goalie development with the team.

Carey Price left Montreal
Price family neighbours in Candiac (including fellow LTIR Habs player Paul Byron) wave goodbye

According to an interview with Angela Price last week on The Drive By podcast, she and Carey are considering buying property in downtown Montreal to facilitate work that they’ll be doing in the city during the hockey season. Angela also confirmed that Carey will be back in Montreal in time for training camp in the fall.

Carey Price has left Montreal, role with Habs expected to bring him back part-time

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by Lorraine Carpenter

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Lorraine Carpenter was born in Montreal and studied communications and journalism at Concordia. She co-founded Cult MTL in 2012 following 12 years at the now-defunct Montreal alt weekly the Mirror, where she worked in editorial as copy editor and music editor. She’s dedicated to supporting the cultural scene in Montreal.