{"id":50993,"date":"2025-08-07T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50993\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:39:10","slug":"extremely-rare-scene-as-brendan-gallagher-was-summoned-by-kent-hughes-for-a-private-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/50993\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely Rare Scene as Brendan Gallagher Was Summoned by Kent Hughes for a Private Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/585430.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo of Brendan Gallagher\" title=\"Photo of Brendan Gallagher\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for the behind-the-scenes documentary on the Montreal Canadiens&#8217; rebuild has just been released. And honestly, it&#8217;s really excellent!<\/p>\n<p>In the video, we notably see Kent Hughes immediately contacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Brendan-Gallagher-19124\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Brendan Gallagher profile and hockey stats\">Brendan Gallagher<\/a>, and we&#8217;re truly excited to see all the footage from that brief meeting.<\/p>\n<p>We can kind of guess what the topic was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Call Brendan Gallagher.&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; Kent Hughes<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you not be inspired by that guy!&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; Jeff Gorton<\/p>\n<p>I really can&#8217;t wait to see more, but here&#8217;s the footage we have so far:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that management places a lot of importance on him-and rightfully so!<\/p>\n<p>Aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Nick-Suzuki-43304\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Nick Suzuki profile and hockey stats\">Nick Suzuki<\/a> and Gallagher, I don&#8217;t think many Canadiens players have had this kind of meeting with Kent Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>Something Special Happened with Brendan Gallagher at the End of the Season<\/p>\n<p>For now, we don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s related to that meeting-we don&#8217;t even know if it happened before or after-but yes, something clearly special happened with Gallagher at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Number 11 went on an incredible 12-game run at the most important time of the season, during which he collected 13 points, including six goals!<\/p>\n<p>At the most crucial stretch of the Montreal Canadiens&#8217; season (aside from the playoffs), Gallagher recorded 13 points in 12 games, with six goals.<\/p>\n<p>There were many contributing factors, but Gallagher was certainly one of the main reasons why the Montreal Canadiens surprised everyone in 2024-2025 by qualifying for the NHL playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old forward earns $6.5 million per year through 2027, and while that contract was once seen as a burden, it&#8217;s now looking like a very interesting deal for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>What a player-and what a teammate!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HabsFanatics<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Screenshot The trailer for the behind-the-scenes documentary on the Montreal Canadiens&#8217; rebuild has just been released.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[34741,49,48,34742,8467,743,44,448,13673,82],"class_list":["post-50993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-brendan-gallagher","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crave","tag-kent-hughes","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-rumor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}