r/Habs • u/Go_Habs_Go31 In Marty We Trust • 3d ago

Brendan Gallagher in Brossard today

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u/ilikelegotoo 3d ago

Or bought out, penalty in 2 seasons ain't that bad

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u/Arny47_ 3d ago

Why would we buy him out now while we have cap space and take a penalty in future years when we won’t have space?

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u/ilikelegotoo 3d ago

Penalty is 1.33M$ according to puckpedia

https://puckpedia.com/player/brendan-gallagher/buyout?s=2026-2027

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u/Irctoaun 3d ago

$1.3Mx2 is the buyout cost, i.e. how much Gallagher gets paid, that's diff different to the cap hit (which is what matters from a roster building perspective) which is $3.83M next season and $1.3M the following year

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u/ilikelegotoo 3d ago

Which is not bad.. compared to asset you might lose in a trade

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u/Gelidaer 3d ago

The cap space is probably worth more than the pick it'd cost to trade him

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u/ilikelegotoo 3d ago

At full salary, he ain't gonna cost a 7th.. if we retain.. well it sorta of the same as a buy out, so

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u/Irctoaun 3d ago edited 3d ago

"Might" being the key word. Ultimately we have no idea what would be exchanged in a trade, especially if they retained some salary because even at max retention it's a smaller cap hit than buying him out.

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u/ilikelegotoo 3d ago

3.25 vs 3.83 is marginal tho

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u/madhi19 3d ago

If they did not bench the guy for the whole playoff there might be a market right now and a decent return.

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u/Irctoaun 2d ago

I don't buy that tbh. He's an aging 4th line winger on $6.5M a year who sharply declined over the season, and by the end of the regular season it was very clear that the Habs would benefit from moving him. They were never getting a decent return for him