why trade your most consistent player and heart and soul of the team for an unproven prospect and a pick

Because he is not re-signing and MTL is over the cap

Because he'll ask for long term agreement and around 6-7M, often on IR, 29YO, Caufield and Ylonen will come. He'll become a cap dumb in 3 or 4 years.

he already said he was willing to take a team friendly deal as long as he stayed for a long time
gallagher will never get traded away

danault weal armia allen and tatar aren't resigning
that leaves 16.2 million to resign gallagher and kotkaniemi
stop tryna make an argument that Montreal is getting rid of gallagher

And next year or 2 years later RW: Gallagher, Caufield, Ylonen, Anderson, Toffoli on the top9... MTL need Danault as 2nd or 3rd center, LW and future RD

Gallagher is not getting traded. This is one report a year before he hits UFA that only says that negotiations are stalled. You're reading too much into this.It's probably a negotiating tactic to squeeze more term/money out of MTL.

Gallagher is the heart and soul of this team. He will not be traded and he will be re-signed.

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2039006

I wasn't talking about next year. This year, they are over the cap. They will need to move someone, might as well be player who doesn't want to return.
(and ACGM can't handle another Byron camp dump offer)



Said NJD fans about Taylor Hall last year
...CBJ fans about Panarin
...NYI fans about Tavares