There is NO PLACE in the NHL for this 

Even as a fan of Montreal, albeit not my top team... there's no way this can be excused in any which way tbh.

Unearned, I'm pretty sure he earns every ounce of it. But this is definitely different, and absolute garbage hockey. I've never like him, I think he is a shit heal rat on the ice and he finally proved it 100% with this gross hit. Can't wait to see who makes him pay for this one, and if he turtles (which I expect he will) I hope they keep after him till he stands up like a man and faces the music.

i LOVE brendan gallagher but FFS WTF was that?!...there was NO REASON...nothing could have been said or done to warrant such a cheap shot to the face....

Yeah I have a gally jersey but that hit was just dirty asf

Gallagher gets a lot of deserved hate.

Yup. Also turnovers.

Oh that's not a dirty Hit - pellek is 6 inches taller and 30 lb heavier than Gallagher Why is he skating with his head down? Those are always the worst injuries - what the hell is the head of a 6 ft 3 in hockey player doing down at the level of a 5 ft 9 in midget? The majority of these "bad hits"'are players playing with their heads down Nobody even notices the fact that Gallagher is a midget next to this guy

They didn't choke in the dying minutes. They were down the entire game.

I agree with you. Gally is my favorite player and always had been but that was dirty, disgusting and unnecessary

i LOVE brendan gallagher but FFS WTF was that?!...there was NO REASON...nothing could have been said or done to warrant such a cheap shot to the face....

Duration of the suspension = duration of the player on the side lide.

why copy paste all youre messages

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@@jabronirigatoni4648what does that mean

@@jackwayne4570 it means, wisdom when spoken aloud, always sounds a little foolish but perhaps that is because when we hear something that makes sense to us, we think we already know it, but often we don't.

I see what you mean about leaving them out, but it'd be really easy for teams to exploit that and leave players out longer than needed on purpose. Unless there was a third party that could ensure there wasn't any funny business, which i doubt would ever happen.

​@@jabronirigatoni4648this isn't okay on a normal day, but to say this the week of the Hockey Canada news, it's even more disgusting. As a man, grow up.

@@jabronirigatoni4648not cool dude. Really immature.

Always has been when it comes to discipline. Absolute joke of a league in that regard

Great point. The League really doesn't care about the players - they are just parts to a machine that produces profits. parts can get replaced - there is an endless supply. The NHL in it's current state is a corrupt monopoly with no oversight, they are above the law in many cases. Just ask the Chicago Blackhawks about how they muzzled Kyle Beach for years over his molestations by Brad Aldrich or protected Bobby Hull from the police on domestic abuse charges. It's simply all about the money, it always has been. The League cheated and stole from it's players for decades before they unionized and got player agents to represent them. It's history with respect to players safety and well being is bleak. They speak to improve things but much is the same as it has always been. The NHL does not lead - it follows slowly. It is slow to learn, slow to admit failure, slow to change, it is run by a dinosaur who hasn't had an original or inspiring thing to say in decades. Yet they play ads saying how the game could possibly be better ? It sounds like russian propaganda, saying the opposite to the truth to turn logic on ot's head. There is a ton they could do to make it better. Like removing the grotesque moving ads on the boards for a start. Improving awful refereeing, it is currently the worst I have ever seen. Defining League Rats and aggressively penalizing them so they stop cheating the game. Suspensions to be tied to injury time, so Gallaghers head shot = time off for injured player. If such a system was in place, hits like his would stop. But the League doesn't want it to stop - controversey sells tickets. This is the unsaid truth to the current state of the game - profits over safety, profits over fan enjoyment, profits over pain and suffering. Sadly, the NHL is just another greedy, sloppily run buisness with it's priorities backward.

Agreed! At least ten for Gallagher and 4 for Huberdeau!

How about they suspend him as long as this guys is out and his career is over then so is his.

Kind of a good point but what if its a freak accident?​@@AJDelRose

Oh yes, quite blatant, yes, quite. 🤣

Refs are bad in every league, every season, every tournament and every country. I'm starting to thing it's not the refs that are bad, but it's hockey's reffing system. The whole reffing needs to be overhauled.

Maybe it's the fans, haha!@@pauljmorton

it is not only the refs but the league officials at fault ,they keep changing the rules, making them more complicated and then not forcing the refs to do their jobs to the point of ignoring many of the infractions so as not to slow down the game, they want fast high scoring games, i.e. 2 hour or less with the final score being 12 to 10; if you think the games are too long and slow then the game is not for you, 90% of games should end with a score of 1 to 0 ; no team should score more than 2-3 goals a game and a game should last however long it takes with every infraction being called and i do mean EVERY infraction, if that means that stoppages and penalty minutes are 3-4 times the regulation minutes then so be it

​@@pauljmorton Yeah, I mean there are a lot of inconsistencies in the calls. While not all plays are the same, we have plenty of the same situations which have been officiated differently

@@jamesberry3230 Good points. I also see nothing wrong with bringing back ties

calm down

@@Gas_Station_Tampons I'm perfectly calm. Recognizing that this hit was utterly disgusting and has no place in the game, and that Gallagher is a waste of a roster spot is just the consequence of being a sane human being.

Egregious … 🤣 oh many, you pulled out your thesaurus for that one 🤣. BTW, you’re not impressing anyone by wanting to sound like those clueless tv so called reporters. What a goof.

I agree, this stuff has to stop. The NHL doesn't hand out punishment that equals the crime ever. Clear intent to injure.

i LOVE brendan gallagher but FFS WTF was that?!...there was NO REASON...nothing could have been said or done to warrant such a cheap shot to the face....

Wrong, Brad Marchand can score too. Lol

Agreed. Gallagher wishes he was the player Marchand is.@@cedrikthibert7033

@@cedrikthibert7033 yeah but I meant like playing dirty

He’ll stop doing it if he loses 10 games of pay, intentional like this is dangerous!

dirty reputation what are you smoking??? gally has a clean sheet he takes 6000% more hits then he receives every year. The amount of time he got crosschecked in the face and didnt recipricate is astounding. Get your faces straight.

It should be a prison sentence for assault.

@@gregjohnson298No, because it's part of the game.

@@MordusdepleinairQuebec Assault should not be a part of a sport,you could kill someone easily with a hit to the head like that.

You sure you're talking about Gallagher ;)

@@DirtyMoneyHipHopThis was the first real dirty thing he’s done in his 12 year career.

As an example, he sucker punched Goodrow a couple of years ago and that was dirty too. He plays on the line and sometimes crosses it.@@politicalbandwagon4989

@@politicalbandwagon4989 eh? is this the same guy?

lol. only seen him play a few times and hes always out there being a doofus@@politicalbandwagon4989

Looks like a good things that could be done. But what if the recovery is faster than it should have been for this kind of hit?

@@grimzkunk The suspension ends when the injured person is playing again, IMHO.

@@dustinchase9187 So if the injured player was lucky to not get kilked and only miss 2 games, the faulty players will only miss 2 games even through he tried to kill him?

@@grimzkunk I didn't say anything about attempts to kill. I said dirty and illegal plays. Your assumption is a different subject and that would require much harsher penalties. Good bye.

And Tie Domi.

That guy should have been straight up banned from the NHL on several occasions. How many times does the league have to let these repeat offenders intentionally injure players and put others careers at risk before they just say 'enough' and end theirs? No one pays for a ticket just to see a guy like Cooke injure better players than he is.

@@CJ-1776 yes they do, just look at how many comments there are about not getting rid of fighting

fighting does not cause those injuries and never has@@jamesberry3230

McAvoy saw Gallagher get more games than he did for the same hit on Larsson and thanked the fact he’s playing for a team who’s always been given special treatment by Bettman

He will likely get for more than a week.

He could stay home the whole season. Not only is he dirty, he sinks the team with unecessary pénalités but he just sucks overall as an hockey player. He's slow as hell, perhaps he's frustranted he cannot keep up with the new speedy talentuous players in the NHL and that's why he triés to injure other plauers... He's finished and he knows it. Having him on the ice ice is a liability for our club and a disgrace to the NHL.

If Pelech is forced to retire, he should sue Gallagher for damages, like Moore did to Bertuzzi.

@@Willowflat16 - 100% agree with you!

Montreal did not play the entire 60 minutes lol. They were leading 3-0 and let the Isles come back. Habs are like that this season, always playing for about a half game (30 min).

@@mamagne800 well I guess that makes it even worse for the Isles then, being gifted at least a point and still letting it slip away.

@Jets228 I know what you mean but if you look closely at a fight, the only "reason" damage is to the hands of the fighters. This era fights is all acting. It is no where near the late 90's/ early 2000's where guys would take off their helmets and actually trade punches. We are in the era of boarding, slew foots, speering, and chicken wings.

@@Jets228 fully agree. If they admit it's an issue, then they will be liable due to their acceptance. It's identical to what happened with the NFL and post autopsy brain studies for CTE.

1967.

Yeah, if they said ‘you can come back when he comes back’ I wonder if that would really motivate guys to cut this stuff out.

Longer than Pinto's 41 games, that's for sure

Stick to soccer Annie.