Episode 174 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast 09-12-2025

Hello hockey fans, episode 174 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast, the goaltending episode has arrived for your hockey fix and to get you to training camp. Topics include- #1. Carey Price to the San Jose Sharks along with a 5th round draft pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft has been traded to the San Jose Sharks and in return the Montreal Canadiens received 22-yaer old right-handed defenseman Gannon Laroque who was the 4th round pick of the San Jose Sharks in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. #2. The Montreal Canadiens have gone from being nearly 6-million dollars over the cap to 4.75-million dollars under the cap, and no they do not need to spend it! #3. Congratulations to the Montreal Canadiens Management for continuing to unload stifling contracts within the organization that are purely dead weight. #4. No NHL club has done a better job at scouting and drafting than the Montreal Canadiens for the last 6 straight years. #5. Here’s to the Montreal Canadiens staying their course and sticking to their plan and ignoring outside ignorance. #6. Let’s make moves and discissions that hand cuff and leave no flexibility, opportunities and that cash straps and organization. That sounds like a stupendous idea!  #7. Ken Dryden has passed. The sport of hockey has lost the greatest goalie ever. But the world has lost and even greater Human Being that touched so many lives far beyond the sport of hockey. #8.  Ken Dryden was not a generational player. Ken Dryden was a transcendent player that not only changed and redefined the position he played, but every life he touched. #9. Ken Dryden won 76 of 80 games he played at Cornell University. Won the Conn Smyth Trophy only playing in 6 games on a team of stars with an extremely high expectations, before winning the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in his first full season the following year. 5 Vezina Trophies, 6 Stanley Cups, all in 8 seasons! #10. There will never be another Ken Dryden. Ken Dryden was truly the definition of Integrity, ethics, honor, commitment and follow-through in everything he did. To say he will be missed is an understatement. Ken Dryden has left far too early and the impact that he made will be missed on every conceivable level.