Brendan Gallagher’s summer has taken on a new shape, and now the next stop is Vancouver.
The former Canadien, who was traded to the Vancouver Canucks on June 29 in exchange for future considerations, has been skating this summer with some of his old Montreal teammates at the CN Sports Complex in Brossard. He’s also been staying in Montreal longer than usual while waiting for his wife, Emma, to give birth to their second child.
That wait ended Monday, when the couple announced on Instagram that they welcomed a second daughter, Ella. Their first child, Everly, was born in February 2025.
Gallagher usually spends his off-season in Tsawwassen, B.C., but this summer kept him closer to Montreal. His wife is from Ste-Julie on Montreal’s South Shore, and the two were married two summers ago.
Now Gallagher is headed into his 15th NHL season, after 14 years with the Canadiens. Last season, he was a healthy scratch for 16 of 19 playoff games before asking for a trade, which sent him to Vancouver, the city where he grew up and where he also played junior for the WHL’s Vancouver Giants.
Gallagher was direct about the way things work at home, and about who keeps the family running.
"We have our leader of the house and that is Emma," Gallagher said. "She takes care of so much.
We have one (child), we have another one coming. But the organization, the planning, the learning schedule ...
I'm the fun dad, but there's a schedule to follow. But so much about what we do around the house she takes care of - I'd say 95 per cent.
And when we're on the road, she's at home alone and she doesn't get a day off. So that's something I'll always be appreciative of and I know that our girls have the absolute best role model to look up to."
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