The last time Brendan Gallagher registered a four point game was... never.
On Thursday night, Gallagher, along with a number of his teammates, would combine for six goals to stamp the Canadiens’ ticket into the playoffs with a dominant 6-2 win in which five players registered multipoint games.
The Canadiens opened the scoring 7:24 into the first period with Alexei Emelin stopping an errant pass on the Panthers’ blue line as the Canadiens were on the attack in the offensive zone and then instantly making a backhand pass to Nathan Bealieu in free space. Beaulieu’s dish to Brendan Gallagher would go to none other than Paul Byron wristing home a rolling puck for his 21st goal of the season to get scoring started.