Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher should be suspended for brutal Adam Pelech hit: P.K. Subban
Brendan Gallaghers hit on Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech in Thursday night’s game was so vicious that even one of his former teammates is calling on the Canadiens forward to be suspended.
Former NHL defenseman and current ESPN analyst P.K. Subban explained in a video he posted on X that the hit in the Isles’ 4-3 loss was one that the league can’t allow to happen again and was inexcusable.
Its a great game, everything is good and then theres this play, said Subban, who played four seasons with Gallagher, 31, in Montreal from 2012-16. Its not a hockey play. Its not a collision in the corner. Its not a battle for the puck. This is a guy skating the puck through the middle of the ice and Gallagher throws his elbow right into his chin.
I dont know how else Im supposed to call that, but to me those are the hits that we just cant have. Thats just inexcusable. Theres no upside.
I hate to say it, but this hit is worthy of a suspension.#nhl#habs#islespic.twitter.com/BHVp69X9Li
— P.K. Subban (@PKSubban1) January 26, 2024
3P.K. Subban was not pleased with Brendan Gallagher’s hit.Pelech, 29, was skating through the neutral zone with 8:10 left in the third period and had gotten rid of the puck when Gallagher came barreling toward the defenseman, catching him with an elbow to the face.
The Islanders blue-liner was attended to by the training staff before heading to the dressing room.
Gallagher was assessed a five-minute major and game misconduct for an elbow to the head, a power play the Islanders scored twice on, but Islanders eventually lost after Sean Monahan scored the go-ahead goal at 17:48 of the third.
Brendan Gallagher received a 5-minute major and a game misconduct for this elbow to Adam Pelech. pic.twitter.com/TlAgNQZ24i
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) January 26, 2024
3Brendan Gallagher was given a game misconduct for the hit.Islanders head coach Patrick Roy did not have an update on Pelechs condition after the game.
I think we all saw what happened, Roy told reporters after the game, per The Post’s Ethan Sears. I think the leagues gonna review the hit. Thats all I can say for now.
Subban, who played 13 years with stops in Montreal, Nashville and New Jersey, called on the NHL Department of Player Safety to step in.
He alluded to a call he made earlier in the season when Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy laid a dangerous hit on the Panthers’ Oliver Ekman-Larsson.
3New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech (3) lays on the ice after an apparent injury during the third period of the game against the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConSubban had publicly said that the Long Beach, N.Y. native should be handed a five-game suspension, but the league handed McAvoy four games.
To see a game like this thats been so good, to have something like that, Player Safety cant be happy with that, Subban said about Thursdays hit on Pelech.
I gotta call it consistent and I have to call it that way no matter who it is. I dont want to see hits like this in the game and Player Safety has got to step up.
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