The Habs alternate captain inked a six-year contract extension on Wednesday
ByDan Braverman @CanadiensMTL / canadiens.com
MONTREAL - The Canadiens agreed to terms on a six-year contract extension with alternate captain Brendan Gallagher on Wednesday. Here's a look at his career by the numbers.
On n’aurait pas pu imaginer Gally ailleurs qu’à Montréal, nous non plus.
30 - Gallagher currently sits in 30th on the franchise's all-time goals list, with 173 tallies on his NHL resume. In 547 career games - all of them with Montreal - he has 334 points (173G, 161A), good for 41st in Canadiens history. His 20 career game-winners are second-most on the Habs since he made the team in 2012-13. He also has 25 points (11G, 14A) in 49 career playoff games.
137 - Of his 173 goals in the NHL, 137 of those have come at even strength. That ranks Gallagher 25th all-time on the Habs, and 16th overall among wingers. His 270 even-strength points place him 34th and 19th, respectively.
Since 2017-18, at 5v5, Brendan Gallagher is:
5th in goals. Behind only Matthews, McDavid, Kucherov and Ovechkin
33 - The 5-foot-9, 184-pound winger set a career high in goals in 2018-19 with 33, one season after cracking the 30-goal plateau for the first time. Gallagher has scored 20 or more goals four times in his eight-year career.
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302 - Gallagher set a career high for shots in 2018-19 with 302. This past season, he led all Habs once again with 226, making it the third straight season he finished first on the team in that category, and his 1,748 total shots are the most for Montreal since 2012-13. SHOP: Brendan Gallagher T-Shirt 157 - Gallagher scored the 157th goal of his career in his 500th NHL game on October 30. Those 157 goals rank him fourth on the Canadiens through 500 games in the past 40 years (1979-80 to pres.)\ \courtesy @StatsCentre
