Player Discussion Brendan Gallagher: all heart, no hands

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Beyond washed up. Can’t skate, can’t pass, can’t shoot, no vision, no skills, no hands, no iq. But he’s a warrior though!!
Bit of a reactionary time to post but it's been pretty clear since his final year with Danault that he wasn't the same. He was pretty crap in the finals run as well.
 
Bit of a reactionary time to post but it's been pretty clear since his final year with Danault that he wasn't the same. He was pretty crap in the finals run as well.
He was crap in the 2020 playoffs also. He can’t even use the injury excuse no more.

He’s on pace for less than 25 points. Half his points this year was due to fluke broken plays that bounced favourably for him.

He also got the worst +/- tied with Drou-Drou.
 
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Bit of a reactionary time to post but it's been pretty clear since his final year with Danault that he wasn't the same. He was pretty crap in the finals run as well.
It’s been years for me that i’ve felt this way about Gally. I just find he has pee-wee level skills. I don’t know man...I could go on and on but i still have an ounce of respect for him.
 
Yeah I'll take the L here. I thought he'd be able to bounce back and have a good season with his legs back, especially because he never really had good hands. He's skating better this year but he's just cooked unfortunately. It should be manageable to keep him around as a 3rd liner until he ends up on LTIR or traded to Arizona but he's probably done as anything more than a third liner.
 
Bit of a reactionary time to post but it's been pretty clear since his final year with Danault that he wasn't the same. He was pretty crap in the finals run as well.
He has heavily declined since 2018.

2016-2017 was his best year and it was downhill from there, he went from being a possession monster to a shoot first "skill" guy that played mostly the perimeter on the rush.
 
He didn’t play a good game at all and I’m not sure why he’s on at the end of the game when the Habs need a goal.

On the positive side this was a really great play resulting in a high danger scoring chance:

 
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No ... and his contract of an additional four years is a big trade liability. On a trade, they'll have to take back something worse, or add a good new player/pick to sweeten/balance the trade. It's a lose/lose situation: lose when they play him, lose on a deal to trade him.
 
No ... and his contract of an additional four years is a big trade liability. On a trade, they'll have to take back something worse, or add a good new player/pick to sweeten/balance the trade. It's a lose/lose situation: lose when they play him, lose on a deal to trade him.
Just find a dinosaur GM. We managed to unload Petry without taking back a crap player. Jim Rutherford happens to be the president in Gallagher's home province.
 
It’s been years for me that i’ve felt this way about Gally. I just find he has pee-wee level skills. I don’t know man...I could go on and on but i still have an ounce of respect for him.
It's not that Gallagher has zero skill, he was as good as he was due to effort and guile but he at least used to have a soft touch around the net and a good shot.

Problem is he lost a step and as anyone who has ever watched him play could tell you a small guy like that who needs to cause chaos to be effective would never age gracefully. He never had the skill of a Marchand to reinvent his game as he got older.

What an awful contract, great way to kill his legacy too.
 
Kinda frustrating how Bergevin cancelled out 2 of the best contracts he handed out (Price at 6.5M and Gallagher 3.75M) by re-signing them to monster LTIR deals after. Yet he hard balled Subban and let Radulov/Vanek go when the team was starved for top 6 players in favour of redemption players like Semin/PAP/etc.
 
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