It rests in his gun-safe at home, a shiny circular slab that contains six grams of gold.
It’s a good place for it. Carey Price, after all, doesn’t really pull out his gold medal from Sochi that much. You could probably count the number of times he has done it on one hand.
But 13 months after Winter Games officials first hung it around his neck after he helped Canada win the Olympic title capped by a championship game victory over Sweden, the influence of that prized bauble has helped Price reach an elite level that he had never been at before.