The 33-year-old appeared in his 900th career NHL game when the Canadiens faced original-six foe the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night, playing each game with the team that drafted him in 2010. <\/p>\n
With this milestone, Gallagher has now played the 13th-most games in Canadiens history, joining an exclusive list that includes Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard and Guy Lafleur.<\/p>\n
He was honoured at the Bell Centre for this achievement in a first-period TV timeout, with Habs faithful rewarding him with a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
“I’ve just tried to enjoy every year. You never know when your last is going to be,” Gallagher said ahead of Tuesday’s game. “It’s a nice night to, kind of, appreciate what we’ve done, but we know we have a job to do as well. So it should be a fun night.<\/p>\n
“It feels right,” Gallagher added when asked how it feels to reach this milestone against such a storied rival. “They’re a very dangerous team and we know what they’re all about. It’s going to be a fun test tonight, should be a good game. But yeah, it feels fitting.” <\/p>\n
Gallagher made his NHL debut in the 2012-13 season, during which he played 44 games. <\/p>\n
Through his now-900 games, the Edmonton native has racked up 245 goals and 239 assists for a total of 484 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 33-year-old appeared in his 900th career NHL game when the Canadiens faced original-six foe the Boston Bruins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-543430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543430","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=543430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}