from Chris Johnston of Sportsnet,

It is an image that will immediately be burned in Stanley Cup lore: Blake Coleman stretching out like a runner trying to steal second base and somehow scoring a buzzer-beating goal in the process.

And yet it’s the man on the wrong end of that play we wonder about most.

Carey Price can’t truly be faulted for that goal against, nor the 0-2 hole in this series his Montreal Canadiens head home with. But these weren’t just any two games in a Hall of Fame career and that wasn’t just any goal to slip through the smallest available space above Price’s right pad and below his blocker.

It stood up as the winner in a 3-1 victory that moved the Tampa Bay Lightning within two wins of a second straight Stanley Cup....

There’s never been a good time for Price to be something less than superhuman in Montreal. But after nearly 800 career games and all these years as a generational goaltending talent, this is a particularly challenging moment for him to allow eight goals on 50 cumulative shots no matter what bounces went the wrong way or who fired the pucks past him.

We don’t actually know how Price is handling the roller-coaster of his first Stanley Cup Final. He was requested to speak after Game 2, but wasn’t made available to reporters during Zoom availability.

The man who expertly backstopped Team Canada to a gold medal at the Sochi Olympics and has long lifted the Canadiens to a level exceeding their collective talent had been burning for this chance at a championship.

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