DingerMcSlapshot
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Player Discussion Brendan Gallagher: all heart, no hands
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BLONG7
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LTIR.....................RobIdas Island......
I am scared to ask how many years left on his deal? 4 more? Maybe?
We may need Tony Soprano or Lou Lamerello to take care of this guy.
JohnTheBaptist
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We can't, we have to live with him. When the other dead weight is cleared off the roster and we're only left with Gallagher as a bad contract it won't matter so much. Sure he's making 4 million more than he should but no team has a perfect roster.
JohnTheBaptist
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The man is a walking contradiction. Constantly shifting and trying to adapt to the sticks he places in his own wheels. Decade of hockey hell. It's mind blowing that he got the 5 year extension, makes you wonder how billionaires could be so clueless. Or maybe it was to punish us for something? It boggles the mind.
BLONG7
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This guy has given his all and was a warrior when the team was close. Do you really epect him to play the same when the team is not close and rebuilding?
Habs Halifax
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The good news is we are still in the rebuilding/momentum/confidence road with the term Gallagher has left so we won't need the cap space. Basically got to learn to live with it at the same time Slaf and players around his age are in development.
Would be much worse if his 6 year deal started next season.
Skating is one of the most important ingredients in today's game. Gallagher was never a good skater and he earned his way with hard work and battling for pucks. 30+ years are going to be rough cause he's not going to improve skating and he's not really winning puck battles anymore. Sad but reality
Le Tricolore
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Are you implying that he isn't giving 100% because the team is bad? I sincerely doubt that this is the case. Gallagher's had a lot of injuries and they're finally catching up to him like we all expected they would around this age.
He was great for the team and Bergevin rewarded him for it even if the contract was a terrible move from day one.
Gallagher has 10 goals in his last 82 games and this is only year 2 of his 6 years 39M contract. One of the worst contract in the league.
This is the Bergevin move that pisses me off the most; this contract rewarded the past. Bergevin couldn't get over his blind loyalty to certain players regardless of their future performance projections. He couldn't get over his biases in the same way he projected his journeyman experiences onto his bargain bin pickups - he had little prescience for the performance of a small forward who's body would clearly break as he approached his 30s.
A secondary indictment of Bergevin's stupidity was choosing the wrong forward. It was clearly Danault who drove that line to success. What does he do? signs Gally for even MORE money and lets Phil and Tuna walk. Truly an idiot
A secondary indictment of Bergevin's stupidity was choosing the wrong forward. It was clearly Danault who drove that line to success. What does he do? signs Gally for even MORE money and lets Phil and Tuna walk. Truly an idiot
Ezpz
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Yeah I don't agree with ever rewarding players for past performances. Gally was already declining before this contract was even signed. His numbers hadn't fallen off yet but it was clear he was losing a step. Then he lost the whole legs, arms, torso and brain.
But it helps the multi year tanks picking gally over Danualt
? But yes poor decision. Chairot.....Cup run n flipped cause on a good contract. (Good asset)
Toffoli...contributes n flipped (good asset).....more to come with Ed etal.
Guhle?
X?
Harris?
Zuk?
CC?
All decent moves I'm sure will be dismissed as luck.
I'm not defending him but there some good there also like all teams GMs. Yes bad contract with Gally, for sure.
Tuna? Rad? I could care less.
Gally seems worn out, beat up n down. Just gotta live with it n hopes he co tributes in others ways.
HuGort
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Gallagher met with team doctors yesterday, lower body injury. What was the outcome? Best send him home for season. Get ready for next year. Put on LTIR. We can use his 6 million caproom this deadline.
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no impact on our ability to ice a contender in the next two years. If everything absolutely goes well, we might need the cap room three years from now, in the next to last year of his contract.
The contract is booby trapped so that, in the 2nd year of any buyout, his cap hit triples or quadruples, making Cap planning around a Gallagher buyout next to impossible.
I'd let him play two more years before paying a ransom to have another team take his salary off of our hands. For one, the ransom, at that point, won't be as high and giving a way a 1st round pick and a 'B' prospect might let us off the hook from Gallagher's last two years of his contract.
Right now, it would take much more than that, IMO.
The added bonus of having him play two more years for us is that he might actually end up on Robidas island by then, having us avoid pa=ying the ransom to find him off of our cap structure.
The tears, when talking about Gallagher's contract, were Bergevin well aware that he wouldn't sign anew contract himself and that fans would hold Gallagher's contract against him
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The booby-trap is really obnoxious. I don't understand how and why this was allowed to happen -- that capologist guy the Habs retained had to have nixed this little twist, I don't understand why it didn't happen. A NMC and it's got a semi-poison pill against buyouts... for a player with a career high 50-something points and a ton of injuries... what the hell is the point.
Your last line is on point, I think we ride him until Hughes/Gorton gently nudge him toward Robidas Island. Hip injuries will do the trick. Win-win. He gets paid and we get rid of him.
I really cannot stand seeing him on the ice, his teammates must be so frustrated at him too.
The truth is that Gallagher was likely to get a similar contract from another club. Players like Gallagher who destroy their body and have a motor that doesn't stop always get paid a premium: see Hyman, Coleman, and Anderson to a certain extent.
The part that sucks is that it was the habs that gave him this contract.
It's an interesting situation because I really love Gallagher and the style of player that he is. But man, his body is destroyed and there is no way he lives up to that contract barring some miracle recovery of all his bobos.
The part that sucks is that it was the habs that gave him this contract.
It's an interesting situation because I really love Gallagher and the style of player that he is. But man, his body is destroyed and there is no way he lives up to that contract barring some miracle recovery of all his bobos.
Benstheman
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Gallagher is unfortunately done. It's a shame cause i like him alot as a person and player. I think what we are seeing is a player that can't take the pain anymore and it's normal. I don't think he finishes his contract anyways.
Leon Lucius Black
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To make his contract even worse, he is due $27.5M over the last 4 years of his deal with no signing bonuses.
If it was at least front loaded more or had some signing bonuses built in it might've slightly helped trade him to a lower spending team that has cap space.
He is due $8M and $9M the next two years after he's scored 11 goals in his last 81 games.
If it was at least front loaded more or had some signing bonuses built in it might've slightly helped trade him to a lower spending team that has cap space.
He is due $8M and $9M the next two years after he's scored 11 goals in his last 81 games.
Pompeius Magnus
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I remember seeing how banged up he was at the end of the 2021 cup run, just looking at his face and thinking ''it took every bit of what he had left in him to get there''. His body has been a wreck since and every puck or check he absorbs is just adding to it.
Habs Halifax
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Yup. It's sad. We knew the contract would not likely age well but man, it's not starting well which is worse.
How would he look if he played with a center like Danault again? That's the only hope we got... A center that can shelter him in the puck possession area.
Hins77
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Especially when players turn 30 yo on their new contract…. I mean, sometimes you better to let walk some players and obtain cap space over sign them on long term. Also, I have the impression Bergevin didnt had a scale about role players/lenght of the contract/AAV by role players. 3 years armia, 6 gallagher, 4 toffoli…. This is not how it should work. You are a bottom 6 players? Then, you deserve maximum 2 years. You are a top 6 players? Well ok. How old are you? 26. Ok you deserve 6 years. 29? The lenght will be lower. I don’t really care if the aav is higher. Just look contract structure to Tampa. Thats methodical. Cernak, sergachev had the same contract, same lenght. Kucherov, Vasilevski, Point same things. Thats how management should work
CaptainKirk
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The best we can wish for is an eventual Weber/Price LTIRetirement. He still gets paid but can no longer play.
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He was quite bad in the playoff run, 2g 6p in 22gp. He was cooked from before that playoffs.
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