Late in Thursday night’s game between the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Islanders, Brenden Gallagher delivered an ugly elbow to the head of Adam Pelech, injuring him on the play. We talk about that and more in today’s NHL Hockey video!
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My theory (admittedly for more serious offenses like Scott Stevens hit on Paul Kariya) is that the player making the intentional dirty hit is out until the victim of the hit has played 3 games and is fully back. Kariya was out for a long time with that concussion and was never the same player.
Stuff like this: 10-15 games NO PAY, NO CONTACT WITH THE TEAM. No going to the rink and practicing or working out or working with the trainers. You get a 3 week vacation without pay.
Absolutely disgusting hit by Adam Pelech, trying to headbutt Gallagher's shoulder like that, disgraceful.
thats why they get paid good money thats hockey canadian hockey not american
jesus christ. there is no scenario where that hit was justified. completely reckless elbow to the face that could have done some serious damage. the nhl needs to suspend Gallagher and use him as an example that this is not allowed. dirty hit.
What a prick move. Short guy syndrome.
8+ games
Looks clean to me
He needs to be arrested for it,on the streets this is a prison sentence.
He's gonna be suspended for sure, but what i really want is for MSL to sit him for a couple more games when he comes back.
dirty af Gallagirl
Was always a fan of Gallagher but no place for that. As a Canucks fan this reminds me of Rome’s hit on Horton however I feel like this hit was even more late and more of a headshot then Rome’s was. Hopefully Pelech is okay with no concussion symptoms
Suspend him for the rest of the season, would be doing the habs a favour
I honestly think this should be 7-10 games.. He coulda have wrecked Pelech's career.
I'm guessing 2-3 games when the Department of Player Safety spins their wheel of suspensions.
Dirty hit…Gally is not that kind of player. A first in 700 games for him. 3-4 games…
Gallagher deserve a suspension! (The ligue suspensions are not serious, if you want to eliminate those kind of hits they need to give at least 5 matchs. In my opinion the player in fault should be missing all the number of matchs the victime miss +3 at least).
with that said, Pelech fail to protec himself, Gallager made a bad decision when he decide to finish the play with the hit maybe he miss anticipate the reaction of Pelech who clearly ignore Gallager… Head down the sight turn why? Pelech had destroy Gallagher if was stand up for the hit plus Gallagher could had an interference on that play…
It was a bad hit he deserve a suspension, but I have seen so much worst and some get nothing or not enough for worst so how you can give him more than 3 matchs?
He also jumped into it.
Oh yeah man, that’s an elbow to the face, can’t do that
5 games at minimum. Every aspect of the hit was predatory.
Remember 30 years ago when this was a 2 min penalty and a brawl would break out and no one was a pussy about it….?
For things like this, I think the NHL should make a rule for plays with an intent to injure, suspensions for as many games as the recovering player is out on injury. If it the remainder of the season so be it. And Half the salary during the duration of the recovering players injury is paid into an NHL fund to help support retired players who suffer from the effects of the game.
For sure.. ..
Whatever Gallagher gets suspended for, it only highlights just how far he has fallen in the esteem of fans and the NHL community. I used to watch him play here in Vancouver with the Giants. Hey Brendan, whatever happened to you man? Just brutal.
There should be a new rule where if you intentionally hurt another player you get suspended for their whole time out being injured plus a set number of games determined by the league.
Looked like intent to injure. With some other hits, that result in suspension, you could say the player was being reckless, but not here. Feel like he’ll get 6-8 games
Do a 10% salary fine and nobody will dare to do that dirty shit
Charlie McAvoy after putting his stick on the face of another player: 5 games.
Brendan Gallagher after full force elbowing a player for no reason: 0 games.
As a habs fan I agree that Gallagher should get suspended and fined BUT comparing Gallagher to Brad Marchand is ridiculous. He's a guy who plays hard and plays in front of the net but never was dirty in any way.
I'm sure he knows it was a bad hit and feels dumb right now
Give this washed ass player 20 games
I am a lifelong, tattooed on my body, went to Stanley Cup parades on St. Catherine since 77, and YES, he should be suspended. I have no idea what he was thinking.
20 games. No questioned asked.
Best Raffi Torres impression I've ever seen
Solid hit. Good lesson for the kids: don't admire your pass and keep your head up
Super dirty. Damn shame these type of things still happen. Minimum 5 games imo
He needs at least 5 games like you said, but I think it should be at least 10. The NHL needs to clean up it's act with crap like this and the whole sexual assault allegations. Yeah those players did it before they were even in the NHL, but it was given a pass by higher level hockey.