The biggest piece of news from this morning’s practice is that the Canadiens will have to go without the presence of Brendan Gallagher after taking a Shea Weber slap shot off the same hand he broke last season.
Medical update: B. Gallagher underwent surgery last night in Montreal. Fractured left hand. His recovery is expected to be minimum 8 weeks.
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) January 6, 2017
The thin silver lining is that he apparently escaped injuring the same fingers as last year.
The fingers that Gallagher had broken last season were not affected when he had his hand broken in Dallas.