Alexandre Carrier didn't pay the compliment expecting a receipt.

"Juice," as in Nashville Predators goalie Juuse Saros, was the defenseman's answer.

The question: Who is the best-dressed player on the team?

"That's a nice compliment," Saros said. "He's a good one, so I can give a compliment back to him."

When Carrier learned that some of his teammates, including Saros, had picked him, he responded with a smile

"I don't have that kind of budget," Carrier said jokingly in reference to Saros.

Turns out Carrier, who takes home $2.5 million per year, which is half of Saros' salary, doesn't need it. Not on his way into arenas before games, when a lot of players show off their outfits. Not on his way to practice.

'What are other people saying?'

Unlike forward Tommy Novak, who was named the worst-dressed on the team in an informal poll last week, fashion sense comes naturally to Carrier.

That sense hasn't gone unnoticed for the guy who went almost three years between his first NHL call-up in January 2017 and his next in January 2020.

Carrier's wardrobe is so impressive that even some of his teammates take it for granted when thinking of answers to the question.

"I would say suits, (Carrier). He has good style," captain Roman Josi said. "I would go (Carrier), even his casual clothes."

"Alex Carrier?" Cody Glass asked, almost afraid of answering incorrectly. "I would say non-game day, too. Good shoe style."

"That's a tough one," Novak said. "Probably (Josi) or Tyson (Barrie). What are other people saying?"

Carrier.

"Oh, OK," Novak said. "Yeah."

'Fil takes the cake'

Carrier didn't carry the whole vote, though.

Enter forward and recently named NHL All-Star Filip Forsberg.

"I think it's valid," Forsberg said of being named among the best dressed. "I try to have fun with it, whenever you get an opportunity."

Usually that's before games during the team's entrance into an arena.

"Filip Forsberg has some insane suits and shoes," said Luke Evangelista, who put himself in the upper tier of the team's top dressers. "Game-day fits is probably Fil. Fil takes the cake.

"He had this red one on last game. He had red Nike shoes on. He had the Liverpool, like three-piece little vest underneath. It was pretty electric."

And eclectic.

Fitting for Fosberg, the man who scored two more goals the other day and whose fashion sense includes "fun" socks.

Evangelista wasn't the only player to nominate Forsberg for first place.

"Fil," said center Ryan O'Reilly, who described his own style as "simple, nothing crazy," and was chosen by Michael McCarron as best dressed. "He's got some really nice pieces. He has the best style.

"He'll be able to pull off louder stuff. Last week he had this pink suit. It was just unreal."

Forsberg said he has "probably 10 to 12 suits."

"I try to cycle through all of them," he said.

His favorite?

"The red one I wore for the opener," he said. "But you can't wear that all the time."

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