from Jack Todd at the Montreal Gazette,

Carey Price has shouldered so much of the load for the Canadiens for so long that it seems like heresy to suggest he has been something less than All-World this season. Or even an All-Star.

But based on the reality of a campaign that was over before Santa harnessed his reindeer, Price had no business playing in the All-Star Game.

Based on Price’s career, he should have been part of the festivities. But taking this season alone, the only Canadien who deserved an All-Star berth was Brendan Gallagher. The undersized power forward with a heart the size of the Bay of Fundy has been there, night in and night out, taking the worst the league’s redwoods can throw his way around the crease without complaint and still producing steadily....

Price, meanwhile, has been an enigma. Superb at times, but not often enough. Sluggish at other times. What the real cause might be is pure speculation: technical faults, a lingering injury, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Price mention in an interview with TVA and then refused to discuss. Off-ice problems that have left him stressed and/or depressed.

Whatever, he has simply not been the Carey Price we know.

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