{"id":625425,"date":"2026-04-24T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:27:09","slug":"will-canadiens-give-gallagher-a-shot-in-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625425\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Canadiens give Gallagher a shot in Game 3?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in his 14-year NHL career, Brendan Gallagher was a healthy playoff scratch for the opening two games of the Canadiens\u2019 first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a 3-2 overtime loss in Game 2 \u2014 after blowing a 2-1 third-period lead \u2014 Tuesday night in Tampa that evened the best-of-seven series 1-1, should Gallagher be in the lineup for Game 3 Friday night at the Bell Centre?<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1575\" height=\"1050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HIO-32-Rectangle-Sticker-Landscape-12.png\" alt=\"Montr\u00e9al Canadiens center Kirby Dach (77) flies off the back of Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov (86) in the first period during game two of round one of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 in Tampa.\" class=\"wp-image-100177692\"  \/>Canadiens forward Kirby Dach goes over the back of Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov during first period of Game 2 on Tuesday in Tampa, Fla.  Luis Santana \/ Tampa Bay Times<\/p>\n<p>If so, who should come out of the lineup?<\/p>\n<p>Those are the questions answered in this Hockey Inside\/Out Show bonus episode, as The Gazette\u2019s Stu Cowan is joined by former Canadiens teammates and 1986 Stanley Cup champions Chris Nilan and Rick Green.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have one more bonus episode coming during the next few days and a new Hockey Inside\/Out Show next Thursday after the Canadiens and Lightning meet in Game 5 the previous night in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already done so, please subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HabsInsideOut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hockey Inside\/Out YouTube channel<\/a>. The Hockey Inside\/Out Show is also available on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/663fB47gXxxQ7oqg24axaN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/hockey-inside-out\/id1846419875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/hockey-inside-out\/id1846419875\">.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in his 14-year NHL career, Brendan Gallagher was a healthy playoff scratch for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-625425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625425","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=625425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}