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Brendan Gallagher
Montreal Canadiens Right Wing
Five foot nine, 516 career penalty minutes, and the largest finishing shortfall on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | MTL | 44 | 15 | 13 | 28 | +10 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 117 | 12.8 | 13:52 |
| 2013-14 | MTL | 81 | 19 | 22 | 41 | +4 | 73 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 211 | 9.0 | 15:58 |
| 2014-15 | MTL | 82 | 24 | 23 | 47 | +18 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 254 | 9.4 | 16:35 |
| 2015-16 | MTL | 53 | 19 | 21 | 40 | +13 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 173 | 11.0 | 16:35 |
| 2016-17 | MTL | 64 | 10 | 19 | 29 | +7 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 187 | 5.3 | 15:06 |
| 2017-18 | MTL | 82 | 31 | 23 | 54 | -13 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 278 | 11.2 | 16:09 |
| 2018-19 | MTL | 82 | 33 | 19 | 52 | +10 | 49 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 302 | 10.9 | 16:24 |
| 2019-20 | MTL | 59 | 22 | 21 | 43 | +9 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 226 | 9.7 | 16:55 |
| 2020-21 | MTL | 35 | 14 | 9 | 23 | +10 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 106 | 13.2 | 15:01 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 56 | 7 | 17 | 24 | -7 | 69 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 142 | 4.9 | 15:01 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 37 | 8 | 6 | 14 | -5 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 93 | 8.6 | 14:17 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 77 | 16 | 15 | 31 | -24 | 74 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 154 | 10.4 | 13:47 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 752 | 218 | 208 | 426 | +32 | 516 | 44 | 1 | 26 | 2243 | 9.7 | 15:36 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
77 games, 16 goals and 15 assists for 31 points, 1 on the power play, 74 penalty minutes, 13:47 a night and minus-24. He took 50.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 953 minutes, the 55th percentile, and his ice went 34-47 against an expectation of 44.82-44.43.
Eleven goals of scoring that did not arrive on his ice — the largest shortfall on the club — and three more conceded than the chances called for. An even chance share that produced a minus-24, which is as unlucky as this edition gets.
The Finesse Game
217 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 49 per cent from inside 20, 154 of them on goal, converted at 10.4 per cent against a career 9.72.
208 career assists in 752 games. Everything he has ever scored has come from inside the dots and most of it from inside the crease. Sixteen goals at 31 on thirteen minutes a night is more than the contract is producing but not nothing.
The Physical Game
He is 5-9 and 185 and stands in the blue paint against defencemen fifty pounds heavier, which is the whole of his career.
516 career penalty minutes in 752 games is a real rate for a man this size. He takes liberties, retaliates, agitates, and has been hit more often than almost anybody of his generation.
The Intangibles
A fifth-round pick in 2010 out of Edmonton, twelve seasons and 752 games, all of it for one organisation. He has 218 goals from the front of the net at 5-9.
He is 32 and the body has taken a decade of it. The minus-24 is a lie about last season and the thirty-goal seasons are not coming back either.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“He is 5-9 and 185 and stands in the blue paint against defencemen fifty pounds heavier, which is the whole of his career.”
“He takes liberties, retaliates, agitates, and has been hit more often than almost anybody of his generation.”
“He takes liberties, retaliates, agitates, and has been hit more often than almost anybody of his generation.”
“He takes liberties, retaliates, agitates, and has been hit more often than almost anybody of his generation.”
“He takes liberties, retaliates, agitates, and has been hit more often than almost anybody of his generation.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 953 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.2%
- 55th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.8%
- 44th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 34 for, 47 against. Expected: 44.8 and 44.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 63rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.09 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.4 mph
- 26th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 953 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake Evans33%
- Joel Armia27%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- MTL took 46.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.2% — 4.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 953 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Evans | 53.1% | 48.7% | 40.5% |
| Mike Matheson | 45.9% | 51.9% | 44.1% |
| Kaiden Guhle | 48.1% | 51.0% | 44.2% |
53.1% together, 48.7% for him apart and 40.5% for Evans apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
217 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.