"He's good at reading your game and I think he's really, really smart," Malkin said. "The last few years, I think he's the best goalie in the League. He's good at everything. He's the best goalie."
Price struggled last season, going 16-26-7 with an NHL career-worst 3.11 goals-against average and .900 save percentage, but those numbers don't matter to Canadiens forward Max Domi, who was acquired by Montreal in a trade with the Arizona Coyotes on June 16.
"[He] probably hurts your confidence in practice now that we're teammates and I struggle to score on him, but it'll probably help my game in the long run," Domi said.
Rinne, who won his first Vezina Trophy last season after going 42-13-4 with a 2.31 GAA and .927 save percentage, was selected by Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid, who has won the Art Ross Trophy the past two seasons.
"[He] usually gets me," McDavid said.
Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane said Rinne's size (6-foot-5) and reach make him a hard read.
"I've scored on him on a breakaway before, but I've had a lot," Kane said. "My percentage probably isn't that great. I feel like he's big, and sometimes you'll do something and miss. Then you'll have something in your mind that you want to do next and he'll cover that part of it. You really have to switch it up on him."
Quick's mobility has given players the most trouble.
"He's so agile," Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy said. "When you think you have a wide-open net, that's when he comes and saves it."
Lundqvist's success is a result of his work ethic, said Minnesota Wild forward Eric Staal, who played 20 regular-season games with the Rangers during the 2015-16 season.
"I didn't play a lot with him, but we did breakaways after practice," Staal said. "He would just go and go and go, and he was tough to score on."
Best breakaway goalie voting (61 total votes)
Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens, 16; Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators, 9; Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles Kings, 6; Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers, 6; Marc-Andre Fleury, Vegas Golden Knights, 5; Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus Blue Jackets, 5; Tuukka Rask, Boston Bruins, 3; Frederik Andersen, Toronto Maple Leafs, 3; Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay Lightning, 2; Corey Crawford, Chicago Blackhawks, 1; Braden Holtby, Washington Capitals, 1; Semyon Varlamov, Colorado Avalanche, 1; No answer given, 3