{"id":536193,"date":"2026-03-14T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536193\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:11:14","slug":"montreal-canadiens-winger-brendan-gallagher-healthy-scratch-saturday-against-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/536193\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens winger Brendan Gallagher healthy scratch Saturday against Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL \u2014 Brendan Gallagher<\/a>, the longest-serving player on the Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, will be a healthy scratch Saturday against the San Jose Sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Head coach Martin St. Louis<\/a> announced following the team\u2019s morning skate that Gallagher would sit out with winger Cole Caufield<\/a>, who missed Wednesday\u2019s 3-2 win in Ottawa with an illness, returning to the lineup.<\/p>\n

Alexandre Texier<\/a> drew in for Caufield after five games as a healthy scratch and scored a goal Wednesday. He\u2019ll line up in Gallagher\u2019s usual slot next to Phillip Danault<\/a> and Josh Anderson<\/a> on the fourth line.<\/p>\n

A heart-and-soul player, Gallagher has played his entire 14-year and 898-game NHL career with the Canadiens since the franchise drafted him in the fifth round at the 2010 draft.<\/p>\n

This season, the 33-year-old from Edmonton has six goals and 14 assists through 64 games while averaging a career low 12 minutes 39 seconds of ice time.<\/p>\n

Gallagher, who wears an \u201cA\u201d on his sweater, has not been a healthy scratch since suiting up in his first NHL game Jan. 22, 2013. St. Louis said the veteran winger would return to the lineup Sunday, when the Canadiens host the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Montreal (36-18-10) sits third in the Atlantic Division heading into Saturday\u2019s games.\u2028<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Brendan Gallagher, the longest-serving player on the Montreal Canadiens, will be a healthy scratch Saturday against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,82],"class_list":["post-536193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536193","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=536193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}