The Montreal Canadiens have the highest paid goaltender in the National Hockey League. Carey Price’s $10.5 million salary is among the highest in the league regardless of position, but makes him the highest paid shot stopper in the world.
It appears their strategy for the past few years has been to rely heavily on Price since he is making so much money, and try to find a halfway decent backup goaltender on the cheap. This season, the answer was Keith Kinkaid, on a one-year contract that paid him $1.5 million. As it turns out, even that was an overpayment for the Habs who had plenty of cap space.