BROSSARD, Que. — Canadiens goaltended Carey Price signed a six-year contract worth $39 million with Montreal on Monday.

The 24-year-old Price is a two-time All-Star who has been in the NHL for five seasons.

Price played 65 games last season for the Canadiens, who missed the playoffs last season. He posted a 26-28-11 record with a 2.43 goals-against average, a .916 save percentage and four shutouts.

Drafted by Montreal in the first round, fifth overall, of the 2005 NHL draft, the native of Anahim Lake, British Columbia, has a 124-104-35 career record with 16 shutouts, a 2.56 GAA and a .916 save percentage.

“It kind of made sense to me,” Price said during a conference call. “It will take me to until I’m 30 years old and generally that’s about the peak of goaltenders, so I’m hoping by then to have a couple of Stanley Cups and have a good re-negotiation when I’m 30.”

Canadiens fans would dearly love to conjure up hope of winning one more Stanley Cup after the team finished 15th — dead last — in the Eastern Conference. Montreal has not won a Cup since claiming its record 24th title in 1993.

With that goal in mind, Price is ready to assume still higher expectations from the team’s demanding fans.

“There’s a tremendous amount of pressure on us no matter what you’re making, so it might make you a target a little more,” he said.” But being a goaltender, I’m used to that anyway.”