It’s now impossible to talk about a buyout for Brendan Gallagher

Jasons of Brendan Gallagher .

At the beginning of the season, we were talking about him as a player who was no longer following.

We were saying that seeing the Canadiens buy out his contract could be an option in June 2025 since Gallaghers annual salary will go from $9 million to $6.5 million, then $4 million thereafter.

The cost of a potential buyout would be more affordable than before, and thats starting this summer: But in fact, its now impossible to talk about a buyout for Brendan Gallagher.

And the reason is simple: even if hes not always at 100%, he continues to help the Canadiens.

He plays an important role in the teams successes because he shows up every night and sets an example on the ice.

He even didnt want to miss games after the death of his mother and the birth of his daughter...

Hes healthy and that helps, too.

He even reached the 20-goal plateau this season, while at the beginning of the campaign, nobody saw him scoring that many goals.

We could even say that hes relaunched his career...

From potential buyout to 20-goal scorer: Brendan Gallaghers resurgence this year is incredible pic.twitter.com/WRbfeQ1JW5 BPM Sports (@BPMSportsRadio) April 7, 2025 Buying out Brendan Gallaghers contract this summer would be disrespecting him.

Especially after the season hes having right now.

Of course, its sure that hes a bit overpaid for what he brings on the ice and that his contract ends only in the summer of 2027, but still: Gally has proven that he can be one of the important pieces of the team.

And with the young players coming, the Canadiens need to have this leader to lead the rest of the group.

A first since the 2014-2015 season...

The Canadiens had success during the 2014-2015 season.

Led by Michel Therrien behind the bench, the team finished the season with a nice harvest of 50 wins.

But that season also turns out to be the last season where the Canadiens had the luxury of being able to count on four 20-goal scorers.

Were talking about...

Max Pacioretty (37 goals) Tomas Plekanec (26 goals) Brendan Gallagher (24 goals) Alex Galchenyuk (20 goals) It almost happened also during the 2018-2019 season.

Brendan Gallagher (33 goals), Max Domi (28 goals), and Tomas Tatar (25 goals) all reached the 20-goal plateau...

and there were also Andrew Shaw (19 goals) and Jonathan Drouin (18 goals) who came close.

Im talking about this statistic because the Canadiens have four 20-goal scorers this season.

Its the first time its happened in 10 years and Brendan Gallagher is still one of the teams top scorers: Cole Caufield (36 goals) Nick Suzuki (27 goals) Patrik Laine (20 goals) Brendan Gallagher (20 goals) If someone had told me in September that the Canadiens would have four 20-goal scorers this season, I would have believed it.

But if someone had told me in September that the Canadiens would have four 20-goal scorers this season and that Brendan Gallagher would be one of them...

I would have found it a bit ridiculous.

Yet, thats exactly what happened.

And again, its special...

because we all thought Gally was out of gas.

In overtime Oh! ZAYNE!! Weve recalled defenceman Zayne Parekh from the OHLs Saginaw Spirit! #Flames | @original16beer pic.twitter.com/M1EXrA8Xhf Calgary Flames (@NHLFlames) April 8, 2025 Hes having a good time.

A player from here whos doing well: Zachary Bolduc.

Since March 1st, hes scored 10 goals.

Thats more than Auston Matthews, Nathan MacKinnon, David Pastrnak, Jack Eichel, or Cole Caufield during the same period! Alexandre Pratt (@alexandrepratt) April 8, 2025 To follow.

Per Paul Maurice: Bennett (upper-body) may be held out until playoffs, no concern he wont be fine for Game 1.

Kulikov may play this weekend.

Tkachuk timeline remains the same.

Sturm may return next game.

Boqvist will be out tonight.

Sounds like everyone else is good to go.

David Dwork (@DavidDwork) April 8, 2025 Wow! look at this check this out #GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/hVfpft4ddL Canadiens Montreal (@CanadiensMTL) April 8, 2025 I love the answer.

Juraj Slafkovsky, on the feeling of being at the bottom of the standings before experiencing the joy of important games: It sucks to suck! We never want to go back there.

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