Carey Price will return to Montreal on November 10, giving Martin St-Louis' Canadiens a major pregame ceremony at the Bell Centre.
The Canadiens announced that Price will be added to the Bell Centre Ring of Honour before Montreal faces the Minnesota Wild.
The timing makes the return even bigger. Price is scheduled to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto on November 9.
One night later, he will be back in the building where he spent his entire NHL career and became the face of the Canadiens for more than a decade.
Price played 15 NHL seasons, all with Montreal. His connection to the organization never required a second uniform or another chapter elsewhere.
He finished with 712 appearances and a .917 save percentage, numbers that underline just how much of Montreal's modern history ran through its crease.
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Carey Price is coming home for one unforgettable night in Montreal
Price also owns the Canadiens franchise record for goaltending wins with 361, adding another layer to a ceremony built around his place in team history.
His individual résumé remains loaded. Price won the Hart Trophy, Vezina Trophy, Ted Lindsay Award and Masterton Trophy during his Montreal career.
He was also selected to 7 All-Star Games, while his international résumé includes gold with Canada at the 2007 World Juniors and 2014 Olympics.
The Hall of Fame induction will make Price the 62nd member of the Canadiens organization to receive that recognition, according to the announcement.
The Bell Centre ceremony will place him alongside recent Ring of Honour additions such as Shea Weber, Pierre Turgeon and Guy Carbonneau.
This won't be a jersey-retirement announcement. But for a generation of Canadiens fans, seeing Price formally recognized inside the Bell Centre carries its own weight.
There is also something fitting about the sequence. Toronto gets the league-wide celebration first, then Montreal gets the homecoming the following night.
Price's career ended without the Stanley Cup that would have completed the story, but his standing in Montreal was never built on one missing trophy.
November 10 now becomes one of the dates Canadiens fans will circle immediately. Carey Price is coming back to the Bell Centre, and this time the building will be there to celebrate him.
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