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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
The Canadiens are not adding to Gallagher to get Backlund...
Their career years are identical with 47 points. Gallagher did it as a 22 year old and followed it up with 40 points in 53 games last season, a 30 goal pace. He's going through a bad season statistically (ironically matching Backlund's career average...) but they aren't going to give up on him. His contract is also one of the best in the league for what he brings and still has 4 and 1/2 years left. On top of that it was frontloaded. He's making about 3M a year going forward in actual cash.
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MTL has the worst centre depth out of any contending teams IMO. If they don't improve it they don't win anything. You could be write maybe they wouldn't move him. Plekanec is getting old and then they have Galchenyuk and nothing.