With Carey Price playing just 49 games last season, it’s a lucky thing he had a few good men to have his back.
Three disastrous starts with the Pittsburgh Penguins and two with the Florida Panthers had 34-year-old Antti Niemi concerned about his future in the NHL. That is, until Marc Bergevin swooped in and scooped him up off waivers. With 19 starts for the Montreal Canadiens, he ended up going from the worst stretch of his career to the highest save percentage since his 2012-13 campaign with the San Jose Sharks.