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Pat Hickey • Montreal Gazette
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April 15, 2022 • 10 hours ago • 3 minutes reading • 7 comments Montreal Canadiens goalkeeper Carey Price (31) leads the team on the ice just before an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders in Montreal, Friday, April 15, 2022 Photo by Graham Hughes / The Canadian Press
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Carey Price made his long-awaited season debut on Friday, but did not go as expected because New York Islanders goalkeeper Ilya Sorokin stole the show.
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Sorokin made 44 saves for his seventh shutout of the season as the Islanders escaped 3-0 at the Bell Center. The appearance of the game changed early in the third period. After Sorokin stopped Joel Armia on the doorstep, the Islanders blocked a shot from Corey Schueneman’s blue line and the Islanders went in the opposite direction with a 3-on-0 break. Jacques Paris worked with Matt Barzal to give the visitors a 1-0 lead at 4:25. Defender Noah Dobson made it 2-0 at 6:09 with a shot from the right circle that fell to the far post. Brock Nelson completed the scoring with an empty goal. Price made his debut on July 7, 2021, when the Canadiens lost Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final.
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The goalkeeper underwent arthroscopic surgery out of season and was expected to be ready for the start of the training camp. But Price joined the NHL / NHLPA Player Assistance Program before the start of the season and this was the first in a series of failures. Only the last two weeks he was able to train with his teammates. Price, who received a standing ovation when he led the Canadiens for the skate pregame and again when he appeared before the puck drop, did not have much work to do in the first period. The Canadians controlled the game and beat the guests 14-8. Two of Price’s rebounds went up to the level of shouting “Ca-rey, Ca-rey”, but it was Sorokin who was called upon to handle the most difficult opportunities.
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They were the same in the second period, but the shots were even more one-sided, with the Canadians holding 16-4. The fans were so hungry for something to cheer that they entered the chant “Ca-rey, Ca-rey”, when a shot from Islanders went out of the goal. The Canadians had the only power play in the first period and looked dangerous as they threw four shots at goal. It was a different story when they had another advantage at the end of the second period and failed to score a shot. Michael Pezzetta, who returned to the starting line-up after two games as a healthy scratch, tried to create excitement when he got confused with Anders Lee with seven seconds to play in the second period. Pezzetta was sent off for a foul and Lee was sent off for a foul.
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The game was preceded by a two-minute tribute to the great islander Mike Bossy. The Montreal native died Thursday night after battling lung cancer. He was 65 years old. Bossi played in four consecutive Stanley Cup victories from 1980 to 1983. He holds the NHL record for most consecutive seasons with 50 goals, nine. The Canadians recognized the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Patriotes during a break in the first period. The Patriots won the U Sports Men’s Hockey Championship this month in Wolfville, NS, defeating the Alberta Golden Bears 5-4 in extra time. It was UQTR’s fifth national title and their first since 2003. The Canadiens return to the Bell Center on Saturday, facing Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals (7 p.m., City, SNE, TVA Sports, TSN-690 Radio, 98.5 FM). [email protected] twitter.com/zababes1
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