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Thatcher Demko is ready to play the bulk of the schedule next season and with the AHL farm team now down the road in Abbotsford, there would be ways to get Mike DiPietro a few NHL starts to further his development while finding a low-cost veteran goalie to play the bulk of backup starts. While it’s a difficult scenario, the best case for the Canucks would see Holtby drafted by the Kraken. Article content The best case and the worst case This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. If Price does become a Kraken, that would open up a $10.5-million cap gap for the Habs. If Price is snapped up by Seattle, would the Habs become a trade possibility for Holtby, whether he’s selected as well by the Kraken or remains in Vancouver? And if Prices goes … He carries a big price tag - not only are there five years left on his contract, averaging $10.5 million per season, he’s due an $11-million signing bonus in September - so Francis and his staff will have to ponder long and hard about the potential opportunity cost of adding a goalie who is already in his mid-30s. His off-season home is in Kelowna and he and his family spent much of 2020 with his wife’s family in southeastern Washington state. Price is originally from Anahim Lake, though he played his minor hockey about 320 kilometres to the east in Williams Lake. Article content Canadiens goalie Carey Price has five seasons remaining on his eight-year, US$84-million contract with an annual salary-cap hit of $10.5 million.
Or might they flip him to a team that really needs a goalie in the short term, like the Boston Bruins, who have no healthy veteran goalies at the moment, having walked away from Jaro Halák and with Tuukka Rask out until the new year following hip surgery.
Would the Kraken take a look at him, knowing there’s little risk? He’s only got one year left on his contract. Photo by Codie McLachlan / Getty Images files Braden Holtby had a season to forget with the Vancouver Canucks in 2020-21. 889 save percentage this past season was the worst of his career. There were glimpses of Holtby’s old self this past season - think of his performance in the first two games back from the Canucks’ COVID-19 break - but the overall picture underwhelmed. The Canucks had hoped that he might rediscover some of his previous form under the coaching of Ian Clark. The Braden Holtby who backstopped the Washington Capitals to a Stanley Cup in 2017-18 and won the Vezina in 2015-16 is no more.