{"id":26502,"date":"2014-11-29T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canadiens-ink-gallagher-to-6-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-11-29T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:21:00","slug":"canadiens-ink-gallagher-to-6-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canadiens-ink-gallagher-to-6-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens ink Gallagher to 6-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal, QC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Montreal Canadiens locked up forward Brendan Gallagher for the long term with a six-year contract extension announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With the new pact, Gallagher&#8217;s salary is set to jump from $650,000 to an average value of $3.75 million over the length of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old native of Edmonton has picked up five goals and 12 points in 24 games for the Canadiens this season, his third in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Since cracking the Montreal lineup during the lockout-shortened 2013 campaign, Gallagher has totaled 39 goals and 81 points in 149 regular-season appearances. He also has recorded 13 points in 22 playoff contests, including career highs in goals (4), assists (7) and points (11) set in 17 games last postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal, QC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Montreal Canadiens locked up forward Brendan Gallagher for the long term with a six-year contract extension announced on Saturday. With the new pact, Gallagher&#8217;s salary is set to jump from $650,000 to an average value of $3.75 million over the length of the deal. The 22-year-old native of Edmonton has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}