MONTREAL — In a just world, Carey Price would’ve finished his career as a Montreal Canadien.

In an ideal one, he’d have been backstopping the only team he’d ever played for through the entirety of the eight-year, $84-million contract he signed back in July of 2017.

But the franchise goaltender was traded, along with a 2026 fifth-round pick, to the San Jose Sharks on Friday, and that move represented one last big save Price made for the Canadiens.

Yes, he stopped making them on the ice in April of 2022, when the accumulated damage to his knee, which was caused over his 804-game NHL career, proved too painful to continue playing through.

But even if it’s a technicality, Price waived his no-movement clause to enable the Canadiens to trade the final year of his contract to the Sharks, and

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