CHL grad Carey Price wins Lou Marsh Award
Tuesday December 15, 2015
Canadian Hockey League graduate Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens has been named the recipient of the 2015 Lou Marsh Trophy honouring Canada’s top athlete.
The 28 year-old captured the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player and the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goaltender in 2014-15, setting career highs in wins (44), goals-against average (1.96) and save percentage (.933).
Price also won the Ted Lindsay Award as the NHL’s MVP as judged by his fellow players, and shared the Jennings Trophy as the netminder on the team with the fewest goals allowed with fellow CHL graduate Corey Crawford of the Chicago Blackhawks.
Price is the first hockey goaltender to ever win the Lou Marsh Trophy, becoming the eighth CHL graduate to earn the distinction. Maurice “Rocket” Richard was the first hockey player to win the award back in 1957.
A native of Williams Lake, BC, Price played parts of five seasons in the WHL from 2002-07, appearing in 193 regular season games with the Tri-City Americans while posting a 83-74-9-3 record with a 2.53 goals-against average, a .914 save percentage and 15 shutouts.
Price also competed in 24 career playoff contests, going 9-12-3-0 with a 2.49 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage.
His best WHL campaign came in 2006-07 when he went 30-13-1-0 with a 2.45 goals-against average, a .917 save percentage and three shutouts to be named the CHL Goaltender of the Year. He led Canada’s National Junior Team to gold in Leksand, Sweden that same season, earning tournament MVP honours.
Price has put together a decorated pro career that includes a Calder Cup title in 2007 when he was named AHL Playoff MVP. He is also a four-time NHL All-Star and won gold with Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia where he was named the tournament’s top goaltender.
CHL grads to have received the Lou Marsh Trophy:
Bobby Orr (Oshawa Generals) – 1970
Phil Esposito (St. Catharines Teepees) – 1972
Bobby Clarke (Flin Flon Bombers) – 1975
Guy Lafleur (Quebec Remparts) – 1977
Wayne Gretzky (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds) – 1982, 1983, 1985, 1989
Mario Lemieux (Laval Voisins) – 1993
Sidney Crosby (Rimouski Oceanic) – 2007, 2009
Carey Price (Tri-City Americans) – 2015
