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Habs’ Price wearing heart monitor during games

Montreal Canadiens v Florida Panthers

SUNRISE, FL - FEBRUARY 14: Goaltender Carey Price #31 of the Montreal Canadiens warms up prior to the game against the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center on February 14, 2013 in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

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Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price was curious about how many calories he burns during the course of an average evening -- from when he arrives at the arena, through his warm-up and the duration of that night’s game.

So, five games ago, he decided to start wearing a heart monitor.

“I wear it in practice and I’ve been curious. I never knew what [calories] I burned during a game,” Price told the Montreal Gazette. “It will give me a good idea what I should be eating and how many calories I should be consuming.”

Here’s more, from The Gazette’s Dave Stubbs:

For the past five games, Price has worn a multi-function heart monitor, the wristwatch receiver clipped into the back of his pants.

The man indeed has a pulse, topping out at 190 beats per minute during the game with an average of 120 bpm, which includes pregame and intermissions.

The “2336” readout on the watch following Monday’s game [a 4-1 win over Carolina] wasn’t the time of night, but rather his estimated calorie expenditure of the previous 5½ hours.

Strapping the monitor on his chest when he arrives at the arena, Price figures by the data recorded that he burns about 300 calories over two hours, then another 2,000 during the warmup and game.

Price is an interesting case study when it comes to this sort of thing, as he’s handled one of the NHL’s heaviest workloads over the last three years.

In 2010-11, he played in 72 games -- second only to Carolina’s Cam Ward -- and played in 65 last season, a number that likely would’ve been higher had he not been shut down late in the year with a concussion.

This season, Price has been his usual busy self, starting 29 of Montreal’s 35 games. But the club has been a little more judicious in its use of backup Peter Budaj, who has made seven appearances already.

Price says he’s enjoying everything about this season.

“There have been a lot of positives this year and not many negatives,” he told the Gazette. “We knew we had a lot of the right pieces to the puzzle this year.”