Thursday Habs Links: Carey Price returns multiple award winner

Montreal Canadiens News and Notes

• Here's how the Canadiens did at the NHL Awards!
  • Congrats to Carey Price who won the Ted Lindsay Award, the Vezina Trophy and the Hart Trophy! [EOTP] [Part 2] [Part 3]
  • P.K. Subban finished 3rd in Norris voting. [EOTP]
  • Max Pacioretty finished 6th in Selke voting and Tomas Plekanec finished 15th. [EOTP]
• Can you believe it has been 10 years since a lucky lottery ball allowed the Montreal Canadiens to draft Carey Price 5th overall at the 2005 NHL Entry Draft? [Montreal Gazette]
• The Brampton Beast have re-signed Cal Wild for the 2015-2016 season. Wild was the captain of Montreal's ECHL affiliate and had put up 9 goals and 16 assists over 59 games last season. [ECHL]

Around The League and Elsewhere

• Good news hockey fans in Las Vegas, Seattle and Quebec City, the NHL will soon open a formal expansion process! But it will come at a cost, as the expansion fee estimated to be set around $500 million dollars per team. [Sportsnet]
• Here's a full list of winners from yesterday's NHL Awards! [NESN]
• The Anaheim Ducks and forward Matt Beleskey will go their separate ways. Beleskey has opted to test free agency, in an offseason where where he widely considered to be the best forward available. [Puck Daddy]
• If the 2010 NHL Draft was re-done, who would have gone first Taylor Hall or Tyler Seguin? A Canadiens' 2010 5th round pick has also made the first round in the re-draft. [NHL]
• American sled hockey player Josh Pauls has been nominated for an ESPY Award! Pauls was instrumental in helping Team USA capture gold over Team Canada at the last world championships and was named best defeseman in the process. [USA Hockey]
• Well, this is one way the Toronto Maple Leafs can win. [SB Nation]

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