No detail is being overlooked as the Canadiens prepare to celebrate their centennial season.

Goaltender Carey Price has spent the early part of training camp breaking in a swanky new pair of brown-and-beige goalie pads that are a modern riff on the old scuffed-up leather pads worn by old-school Hab netminders from Jacques Plante to Rogatien Vachon, through Ken Dryden and Michel "Bunny" Larocque (to say nothing of 1980s flash-in-the-pan Steve Penney.)

"Yeah, they're kind of a retro thing, I got them because we're going to be wearing throw-back jerseys something like 8 or 9 times this season," Price said after a vigorous midday skate at the Canadiens' training camp.

Price also had two pairs of his customary white-and-red pads at the ready in his locker.