MONTREAL — It was April 4, 2018, and Carey Price had just completed his 557th start to pass Jacques Plante for top spot on the Montreal Canadiens all-time list. He was quietly filing his equipment away ahead of holding court with the media from his dressing-room stall. I saw him in my periphery, but he wasn’t my focus. I was standing and chatting with Paul Byron, committed to writing about how the former waiver-wire scoop had just passed the 20-goal mark for a second consecutive season and authored a pretty compelling story I was more interested in elaborating on after dedicating my previous column to Price tying Plante for this particular milestone. After all, what was achieved by Price on that night didn’t put him past Plante on the franchise’s all-time wins list — Price would do that a little less than a year later with his 314th victory as Canadien — and talking to him could wait as it was merely going to enable me to ensure I could collect a quote worth using as a footnote to...