His father was also a goaltender and drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers 126th overall in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft.
Although Jerry never played in the NHL, he did play four seasons of professional hockey in various leagues and was for a time the goaltending coach of the Tri-City Americans.
Price has a younger sister, Kayla, and is second cousins with former professional ice hockey player Shane Doan.
When Price was three, his family moved to the remote town of Anahim Lake in central British Columbia where he was raised.
He was taught to play goaltender by his father on a frozen creek during the winter months and played organized hockey in Williams Lake over five hours and 320 km away by car on Highway 20.
Having to make the ten-hour round trip three days a week, Carey's father eventually bought a Piper PA-28 Cherokee to fly him to practice and games.
1987
Carey Price (born August 16, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently under contract for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Considered one of the best goaltenders in the world during his career, Price is the winningest goaltender in Canadiens history as of the 2022–23 season, with 361 wins.
2002
Beginning his junior career with the Tri-City Americans in the Western Hockey League in 2002, Price was drafted fifth overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft following his second season with the Tri-City Americans.
Price made his first appearance in the Western Hockey League (WHL) in a single game for the Tri-City Americans during the 2002–03 season.
He then made the Tri-City roster the next season, appearing in 28 games as the backup for Colorado Avalanche prospect Tyler Weiman, posting a 2.38 Goals against average (GAA) and .915 save percentage.
The next season, Price took over as the primary starter of the team and established himself as a top goaltender, playing in a league-high 63 games with a 2.34 GAA and .920 save percentage and eight shutouts, both in the league top ten.
Ranking as the best North American goaltender by NHL Central Scouting, Price was drafted fifth overall by the Montreal Canadiens.
This move was considered surprising by many, both because Price was widely projected to be drafted in the middle of the first round, and because the Canadiens' then-current goaltender, José Theodore, had won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender three years prior.
2004
Internationally, Price represented Canada at various tournaments at junior levels, winning silver medals at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge in 2004 and the IIHF World U18 Championship in 2005.
2005
During the 2005–06 season, Price's play in Tri-City suffered considerably and he ended the season with a 2.87 GAA and a .906 save percentage while starting 55 games.
2006
Price rebounded the next season with a very strong 2006–07 season, posting an excellent 2.45 GAA and .917 save percentage while winning both the Del Wilson Trophy as the top WHL goaltender and the CHL Goaltender of the Year award.
2007
He won the Del Wilson Trophy as the top goaltender in the Western Hockey League (WHL), and CHL Goaltender of the Year in his final season of major junior in 2007.
Joining the Canadiens' farm team, the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League (AHL) just as the Calder Cup playoffs begun, Price led the Bulldogs to the Calder Cup championship and won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the tournament MVP.
Price made the Canadiens roster for the 2007–08 season as the backup goaltender before ultimately becoming the starting goaltender later that season.
He won a gold medal at the 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Sweden.
Despite this, the Americans were eliminated in six games during the 2007 playoffs.
Following Tri-City's early playoff exit, later that spring, Price joined the Montreal Canadiens farm team, the Hamilton Bulldogs, just before the start of the 2007 Calder Cup playoffs.
In two regular season appearances with the Bulldogs, Price allowed only three goals and won one game.
Price led the Bulldogs on a remarkable run that spring, defeating the Hershey Bears four games to one in the finals as the team won their first Calder Cup.
Price became only the third teenage goaltender to win the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as AHL playoff MVP, posting a 2.06 GAA and .936 save percentage.
Price made his highly anticipated Canadiens debut on October 10, 2007, against the Pittsburgh Penguins and recorded 26 saves in a 3–2 win.
After the first month of the season, he was awarded the Canadiens' Molson Cup for October, given to the player with the most first-star selections.
Although reassigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs midway through the season in January, he was called back up shortly over a month later.
With the trading of starting goaltender Cristobal Huet to the Washington Capitals before the trading deadline, Price assumed the starting role for the Canadiens.
2008
He was subsequently named the NHL Rookie of the Month for March and the NHL First Star of the Week (ending April 6, 2008) as the Canadiens finished first overall in the Eastern Conference and earned their first division title since 1991–92.
Price completed the regular season leading all rookie goaltenders in wins (24), save percentage (.920) and shutouts (3).
He was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team in recognition for his accomplishments in his first year in the NHL.
2014
In 2014, Price was named to the Canadian Olympic Hockey Team and led the Canadian team to a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, posting a .972 save percentage and 0.59 goals against average across 5 games.
Price's play earned him the tournament's top goaltending award.
2015
In 2015, he won the Ted Lindsay Award, William M. Jennings Trophy, Vezina Trophy, and Hart Trophy, becoming the first goaltender in NHL history to win all four awards in the same season.
In 2021, Price led the Canadiens to their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance since 1993 before eventually losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning in five games.
2016
In 2016, Price went undefeated en route to winning the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Carey Price was born in Vancouver to Lynda and Jerry Price.
His mother is the chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation.
