The Montreal Canadiens traded goaltender Carey Price to the San Jose Sharks on Friday, in exchange for defenseman Gannon Laroque and a fifth-round draft pick in 2026.

Price hasn't played in the NHL since April 29, 2022. He was limited to just five games in the 2021-22 season following surgery on a torn meniscus the previous summer. Price was placed on long-term injured reserve prior to the 2022-23 campaign and has remained there ever since. This is the final season of Price's eight-year, $84 million contract, and after the Canadiens paid him a $5.5 million signing bonus on Sept. 1, they were more easily able to ship off his $10.5 million cap hit to a trade partner in San Jose.

Montreal was $5.9 million over the NHL's salary cap before Friday's transaction. PuckPedia projects the

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