MONTREAL (AP) Even with the Montreal Canadiens eliminated from postseason contention
Jay Beagle Jersey Womens , Brendan Gallagher keeps competing hard every single night.Gallagher scored twice, including his 30th goal of the season, and
Carey Price snapped a seven-game losing streak as Montreal defeated the skidding
Detroit Red Wings 4-2 on Monday.”Those 30 goals are well deserved,” Canadiens
coach Claude Julien said about Gallagher. ”It’s an example of what hard work and
perseverance and commitment and dedication is all about. He never complains
about anything. He goes about and does his job. That’s what you expect from your
leaders.”With the two goals, Gallagher pushed his total to 49 points this
season. His previous career high was 47.”It’s nice,” the feisty winger said
about reaching the 30-goal plateau. ”You want to contribute and you want to
score. It’s also nice to get it out of the way and stop talking about myself and
get back to finishing hard and finishing the right way.”Paul Byron and Alex
Galchenyuk also scored for Montreal in a matchup of Original Six franchises who
will miss the playoffs. Price made 26 saves for his first win since Feb. 4. He
had been 0-5-2 since then.”We have five games remaining and we want to finish
the right way game after game and really push each other to carry this over into
next year,” Gallagher said.Gustav Nyquist and Tyler Bertuzzi scored for Detroit,
and Jared Coreau stopped 27 shots in his fifth game of the season. He is
0-4-0.Both the Canadiens and Red Wings will take part in the draft lottery this
spring. Montreal is 26th in the overall NHL standings, three points ahead of
27th-place Detroit.The Red Wings have won just once in their last 14 games
(1-12-1).”We’ve been real good through the stretch
Curtis McKenzie Jersey Womens ,” Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. ”We’ve played really good hockey. We’ve deserved better results. No chance is that good
enough tonight. We have to be way better.”Our attention to detail, not good
enough. Our intensity, not good enough. Winning puck battles, doing all the
little things it takes, just too many guys not going.”Gallagher scored his first
of the game and team-leading 29th of the season at 4:27 of the second period to
give the Canadiens a 2-1 lead. The forward threw the puck on net from the corner
of the ice and it bounced off Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser’s skate and
in.The Edmonton native, who has scored in three consecutive games, got his 30th
at 9:32 when he tipped a shot by Mike Reilly on net. The puck went off Coreau’s
skate and landed in the crease before the goalie accidentally knocked it in
himself.”Those are the ones I’m used to scoring,” said Gallagher, who also had
two blocked shots. ”It’s always good when the guys don’t really know that you
scored the goals. But any way you can score is obviously nice.”The 5-foot-9
forward came within inches of his first career hat trick. With 4:26
remaining
Nick Holden Jersey Womens , Jeff Petry’s shot from the blue line trickled past Coreau. Gallagher came close to knocking it in, but Galchenyuk got
his stick on it first to make it 4-2.”I don’t think there’s a guy who works
harder in this locker room,” Petry said about Gallagher. ”He’s one of the guys
who’s consistently going to those tough areas and he’s getting rewarded for
it.”Bertuzzi got one back for Detroit at 13:41 of the second when he squeezed a
loose puck between Price’s pads.The teams traded goals in the first
period.Nyquist got the first at 4:41 with a hard one-timer before Byron
responded, on the power play, with a backhand off the post and in at 18:11 for
his 19th.NOTES: Detroit recalled 21-year-old defenseman Joe Hicketts from Grand
Rapids of the American Hockey League. … Several Canadian Olympians were honored
in a pregame ceremony, including medalists Kim Boutin, Charles Hamelin, Justine
Dufour-Lapointe and Mikael Kingsbury.UP NEXTRed Wings: Host the Pittsburgh
Penguins on Tuesday night.Canadiens: Play at Pittsburgh on Saturday night.—
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Max Domi had been a cornerstone of the Arizona Coyotes‘
rebuilding project in the desert. He was young
Paul Stastny Jersey Womens , feisty, skilled and had a great hockey pedigree.Now the Coyotes have a new, young cornerstone who also happens to fill
a need at center after trading Domi to the Montreal Canadiens for Alex
Galchenyuk on Friday night.”Sometimes in this league you have to give to get,”
Coyotes general manager John Chayka said on a conference call. ”Max is a very
talented young player in his own right, but hopefully this works out where it
will be a fit for both sides.”The 23-year-old Domi was targeted to be part of a
youthful new foundation for the struggling Coyotes when they selected him with
the 12th overall pick in 2013. The son of former NHL tough guy Tie Domi, Max
scored 18 goals and had 34 assists as a rookie in 2015-16, but his goal
production has dipped the past two seasons. He had nine goals and 29 assists in
an injury-plagued 2016-17 season, and nine goals with 36 assists last season.The
24-year-old Galchenyuk has been a steady scorer since Montreal selected him
third overall in 2012. He has eclipsed 20 goals twice, including a career-high
30 in 2015-16. Galchenyuk had 19 goals and 32 assists last season.”It gives us
optionality
Max Pacioretty Jersey Womens , gives us some depth there, versatility,” Chayka said. ”You get a guy who has been very productive and has played in those
premium positions, so that was an added bonus with this deal.”Galchenyuk signed
a three-year $14.7-million contract in July 2017 that carries a salary cap hit
of $4.9 million per season. Domi is coming off his entry-level contract and will
need to sign a new deal.Galchenyuk was born in Milwaukee when his father,
Alexander Galchenyuk, was playing for the Wisconsin city’s minor league team.
The family returned to Europe when Alex was 4 years old.
