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Player Discussion Brendan Gallagher: all heart, no hands

KevSkillz4 said:
Contract of Gallagher is bad, but i really like the fact we have this guy on this line up. I think if he can be a leader like Brian Gionta, that would be huge for young players.
Still on pace 30 goals.
I would more like have him at 5 millions, but it's a huge piece on leadership team and at goalscoring.
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good comparison ! agree with that
 
Just posted a video about where Gallagher is slotted in the Habs line up and whether or not they will get the most out of him in that role. Subscribe and comment, always appreciated friends! GHG! :)
 
Gallagher If he plays the majority of the season with Hoffman and Evans or Poehling ? On the 3rd line and power play time. Hopefully plays a full season but few players do ( 5 missed games )

Gallagher 77 games 20 goals - 14 assists - 34 points
 
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BehindTheTimes said:
I don’t think he needs to bounce back from anything. Last season was similar to his previous seasons.
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Gallagher always had poor stamina. He was a one and done player. One shift up the ice and he is exhausted. Its been a problem since he came into the league. The worse stamina of any NHL player I have ever seen in my almost 70 years watching the NHL. Now that he has gotten older and more ‘fragile’ that weakness will only worsen. That contract extension was madness.
 
That contract going to be long, very long.

You can't captain him, because he is going to be a contract would have to buyout eventually and that would be awkward if he is captain.

I hope he gets LTIR in a few years.
 
HabsWhiteKnightLOL said:
Like I always said , Bergevin is a terrible GM when it's time to give extensions.
The case of Gallagher was way too early to extend , Bergevin should have waited until this offseason to sign him , because Gallagher wouldnt have cared and nobody in the league would have offered that awful contract in a flat cap.

It's not like he's not trying. It's just that everything he does turn into nothing. He can score 40 points in a regular season but at that price people should expect more than ''stun petit warrior''. Also he's a terrible playoff performer. Shutdown line or not , at this price he should still give offense.

He's a slow skater
He's small
His passing is under average.
His shots selections are 1 of the wors in the league.
He shoot the puck like a muffin.
He's always gassed out even in a 20sec shift.
He has a terrible injury history with his hands.

Now if Barginbin waited we could have signed him for 4.75m for 5 years.

The worst thing all in all of this is that Gallagher won't age good at all.
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It's not like I didn't see it coming
 
He's beyond snakebitten. The whole team looks awful but even when Gally gets a grade A chance he's whiffing it big time, that's just not normal for him. We all know his contract won't age well but it can't be this bad just yet. He'll find his scoring again when we start playing hockey as a team.
 
I mentioned before the the season started that he won't get 20 goals. You can see it from the end of last year that he just doesn't have it anymore.

If I'm wrong, all the better but I think his better days are way behind him. His contract already sucks real bad and it's only gonna get worse.
 
Non Player Canadiens said:
Wasn't his dad a hardcore fitness coach too, and they trained together?
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You can train all you want. You can improve your stamina, but its part of of a person's physiological makeup. I will say it again, I have never seen a player who gets spent so quickly on the ice. High energy for the first 30 seconds of a shift and then, a sudden, sharp drop off, to complete ineffectiveness. Gallagher starts sucking air after about 30 seconds into each shift, hunched over and barely able to keep up with the play. He becomes an acute defensive liability in the later part of his shifts. When I coached hockey I always told my players who had a tendency to take too long to change that at the start of their shifts they may be playing for their team but if they stayed on the ice too long, they started to play for the other team. Unfortunately for Montreal, as Gallagher ages, the time that he is 'playing' for Montreal during each shift will become shorter and the time he will be 'playing' for the other teams, longer.

The decision to extend a player with such clear physiological limitations was utter madness. The Idiot Savant at his very worse.
 
100% buyout candidate contract in a few years, its that bad of a contract already and hes THAT bad of a player at his age and stage of his career (which a lot of us predicted even 8 years ago)
Just a matter of when exactly you do it
because thats *also* an untradeable contract

We avoided the Pacioretty extension, but we just HAD to sign the 5"8 one ... sigh
 
Is there a higher paid low skill small forward in the league? Gallagher has turned into one of these :

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OldCraig71 said:
Is there a higher paid low skill small forward in the league? Gallagher has turned into one of these :

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The first 2 guys that popped into my mind were Viktor Arvidsson and Cam Atkinson at 5"8 each

After researching a bit
Arvidsson looked like a steal coming off 30 goals 4 years ago at age 24 and signing a 7 year 30 mill contract, for 4.25mill a year
He scored 30 the next 2 years, and then fell off a cliff at 26, has since been traded to the Kings coming off a 10 goal season.

Cam Atkinson , coming off a 35 goal and 24 goal seasons, signed a 7 year 41 million contract at age 29 for 5.875 mill a year
He scored 41 goals the first year of the 7, but followed with seasons of 12 and 15 goals
Also has since been traded to philly and is in year 4 of that contract at age 32 (4 goals in 4 games with philly tho)


Long story short tho, to answer your question. No.
Brendan has just started a 6 years x 6.5 mill contract at 29. The man has ZILCH in 7 games so far
 
Redux91 said:
The first 2 guys that popped into my mind were Viktor Arvidsson and Cam Atkinson at 5"8 each

After researching a bit
Arvidsson looked like a steal coming off 30 goals 4 years ago at age 24 and signing a 7 year 30 mill contract, for 4.25mill a year
He scored 30 the next 2 years, and then fell off a cliff at 26, has since been traded to the Kings coming off a 10 goal season.

Cam Atkinson , coming off a 35 goal and 24 goal seasons, signed a 7 year 41 million contract at age 29 for 5.875 mill a year
He scored 41 goals the first year of the 7, but followed with seasons of 12 and 15 goals
Also has since been traded to philly and is in year 4 of that contract at age 32 (4 goals in 4 games with philly tho)


Long story short tho, to answer your question. No.
Brendan has just started a 6 years x 6.5 mill contract at 29. The man has ZILCH in 7 games so far
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And all the Zuk fans drooling all over him last year, has a bigger and more expensive contract and is absolute garbage. It's more than the individual contracts. Coaching, and GM both suck and all should be fired!
 
Hard to judge him when the whole team is absolute shit. Suzuki has not been better than Gally at all, nor Toffoli. I'll wait.

Still a shit contract though, we all knew it since day one except MB.
 
Maliki2 said:
The whole team is practically goalless in 7 games. Not a valid argument.
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He has to be looked at as a leader though, if he can't get it going, what does it show the kids? He can barely execute a pass and shoots from everywhere no matter how useless the shot or attempt. He is dropping off a cliff because his size and the style that he has played has caught up to him and is not sustainable. His contract could prove to be a boat anchor.
 
Redux91 said:
The first 2 guys that popped into my mind were Viktor Arvidsson and Cam Atkinson at 5"8 each

After researching a bit
Arvidsson looked like a steal coming off 30 goals 4 years ago at age 24 and signing a 7 year 30 mill contract, for 4.25mill a year
He scored 30 the next 2 years, and then fell off a cliff at 26, has since been traded to the Kings coming off a 10 goal season.

Cam Atkinson , coming off a 35 goal and 24 goal seasons, signed a 7 year 41 million contract at age 29 for 5.875 mill a year
He scored 41 goals the first year of the 7, but followed with seasons of 12 and 15 goals
Also has since been traded to philly and is in year 4 of that contract at age 32 (4 goals in 4 games with philly tho)


Long story short tho, to answer your question. No.
Brendan has just started a 6 years x 6.5 mill contract at 29. The man has ZILCH in 7 games so far
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Thanks for the info. Gallagher is broken down, his style of play is not sustainable, I would never question his heart because he has an abundance. It was not the best idea to sign him to a long term deal, he is showing the miles.
 
Time will tell. He has a lot of miles on him, he lost his line mates, and he hasn’t looked good as of late. But, I would take a wait and see approach to divinations.
 
Maliki2 said:
The whole team is practically goalless in 7 games. Not a valid argument.
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4 goals in his last 37 playoff games
like 3 goals in his last 31 regular season games
always gazzed , doesnt go in front of the net anymore , shoots from board.

He's been pretty terrible overall. He will get his points , but at this money , he's an albatross contract
 
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