{"id":714049,"date":"2026-06-04T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714049\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:35:08","slug":"evening-notes-gallagher-dean-jagr-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714049\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Gallagher, Dean, Jagr \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Ryan Long<\/a> |
\n at June 3, 2026 9:03 pm <\/p>\n

The Brendan Gallagher<\/a> trade process is officially underway. Rick Dhaliwal of Cheknews.ca reported<\/a> that the Montreal Canadiens have given agent Gerry Johansson permission to help facilitate a deal, clearing the way for the two sides to find a new home for the veteran winger.<\/p>\n

Gallagher is entering the final year of his contract, a $6.5 million cap hit through 2026-27, and Montreal has signaled it wants to do right by him in finding the right fit. He acknowledged this week that he expects to move on<\/a> after 14 seasons with the only organization he\u2019s known, and he retains trade protection that gives him a say in where he lands.<\/p>\n

Additional Notes:<\/p>\n

The St. Louis Blues signed forward and RFA Zach Dean<\/a> to a one-year deal. Dean, a 2021 first-round pick (30th overall) originally drafted by Vegas, came to St. Louis in the 2023 Ivan Barbashev<\/a> trade and spent this past season with AHL Springfield Thunderbirds. The deal carries an $850k cap hit with a $95k AHL salary, per PuckPedia<\/a>. The 23-year-old center had 14 points in 36 games last year for Springfield. Dean will remain an RFA when the deal expires in 2027
\nThe Jagr streak lives on. With Vegas in the Final, defenseman Rasmus Andersson<\/a> keeps alive a sensational streak: for the 46th straight season, a former Jaromir Jagr<\/a> teammate will appear in a Stanley Cup Final. Andersson played alongside a 45-year-old Jagr on the 2017-18 Flames. Every Cup Final since 1980 has featured one of Jagr\u2019s past or future teammates, a \u201csix degrees\u201d oddity made stranger by the fact that he didn\u2019t debut until the 1990 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ryan Long | at June 3, 2026 9:03 pm The Brendan Gallagher trade process is officially underway.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[157823,34741,49,48,743,82],"class_list":["post-714049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-free-agency","tag-brendan-gallagher","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714049","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=714049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}