Brendan Gallagher, pest supreme, taunts Mark Stone’s wrist injury (Video)
Brendan Gallagher of the Montreal Canadiens is one of our favorite players, because he possesses that unique blend of offensive, physicality and the ability to be an unrepentant little weasel that gets under the skin of opposing players by any means necessary.
Like, for example, mocking an injury.
Please recall Game 1 of the Habs’ six-game victory over the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, in which rookie sensation Mark Stone took a stiff slash from P.K. Subban in front of the Montreal net. Stone went down in a heap, writhing in pain, before leaving for the locker room. Subban was given a five-minute major and a game misconduct.
Stone returned to the game, and even tried to get into an altercation at the end of the game. Which probably didn’t set well with the Habs, judging from what Gallagher did in Game 6.
As Stone and Gallagher jawed at each other, Gallagher skated away smirking, and then shook his right wrist at Stone, which was the wrist he suffered a micro-fracture on after the Subban slash.
(Reading some lips, it’s pretty obvious their scholarly discussion was about their relative toughness.)
True to form, Gallagher had the game-winning goal in the 2-0 Canadiens win, sending the Senators home. But at least he was kind enough to give Mark Stone a hand before doing so…
The same hand Stone used to shake Gallagher’s in the handshake line!
