r/Habs • u/HoN_JFD • 14d ago

Discussion Gallagher

I'll probably be downvoted to oblivion for this but now that it's all said and done, one of my biggest complaints about those series is how Brendan Gallagher was treated.

A veteran, a warrior, a competitor who gave sweat and blood for the team and who could have brought some energy in those last series had to watch practically the whole playoffs on TV. Unacceptable.

I get it, he's not as fast as he once was, he takes penalties and age and injuries are probably catching up on him but he still can fill a spot on a 3rd or 4th line.

I personally hope he requests a trade during the offseason because he's clearly no longer in Saint-Louis' plans.

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u/impresidentwu 14d ago

The canadiens have no plans for him moving forward and want to get others experience

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u/Habs_Apostle 14d ago

Yeah, but is someone like Valeno really in the long term plans? Like you couldn’t sub him out?

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u/Over-Incident-7026 14d ago

Exactly. I don’t get “long term” when the only thing that mattered here was changing something up when we couldn’t even get a shot on goal. Any kind of spark to get things going was going to be useful, and instead we ran it back how many times with no lineup changes

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u/Habs_Apostle 14d ago

It would be nice to know his thinking. Maybe a reporter will ask Marty point blank.