Canadiens Face A Brutal Knies Cost And A Gallagher Reckoning

Montreal keeps running into the same uncomfortable truth: every upgrade comes with a price tag that gets ugly fast. Matthew Knies is the kind of target that forces a front office to think twice, and the Gallagher portion of this story adds the kind of veteran context teams can never quite ignore. This is where roster-building gets less romantic and more surgical. The Canadiens have to decide whether the fit is worth the damage it does elsewhere.