Carey Price has thrived in the Montreal spotlight.
Great article on Carey Price by Sean Gordon of The Globe and Mail. I’ve pasted the entire article below and added some photos of Price or you can get it directly from The Globe here. What’s most interesting about Price is how cool and calm he is about his success (hence the title of the article!). He clearly is an example of someone for whom losing is just part of his mindset but when it happens he accepts it as part of his profession and looks for a way to avoid having it happen again. It’s a long article but is a reminder of the type of coverage that sets newspaper reporting apart from blogging.
Will Price and Sydney Crosby end up Olympic teammates?
MONTREAL — It’s said Ron Hextall used to lock himself in a room before big games to shriek at the top of his lungs.
Jeff Hackett would darkly warn teammates of the bloody consequences of fiddling with his goaltending gear.
To say nothing of the deeply bizarre Gilles Gratton, who claimed to be the reincarnation of a Spanish conquistador and once pulled himself from a game because the stars were improperly aligned.
Let’s face it: Those who don the tools of ignorance and willingly stand in the way of large men with sticks and airborne bits of vulcanized rubber are necessarily a little odd.
But in the case of Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, he of the Zen-like placidity and heavy-lidded languor, the weirdest thing is he’s not very weird at all.
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