Jack Todd: With Price locked up, key for Canadiens is winning the Cup

Eight years is a good long while. Roughly two Gary Bettman lockouts, in NHL time. It’s the span from the prime of an athlete’s career to the twilight, when writers begin sentences about your performance with the phrase “despite his age …”
The deal Carey Price has signed with the Canadiens will actually carry him through the next nine seasons, since he will play the next campaign under his old contract. The new deal, a reported eight-year, $84-million contract that