“Emma’s been great,” Gallagher said. “We’ve got to spend a lot of time together with me being injured. To say it would have been a lot more difficult without her is kind of an understatement. You kind of need someone away from the team and away from this little family that we have here to balance your life out. She’s your No. 1 supporter and it was definitely nice to have her around, to say the least.”“Her family’s on me a little bit,” Gallagher said with a chuckle.
“I learned one thing,” Gallagher said with a smile about speaking French with Emma’s mother. “Mona, qu’est-ce qu’on mange pour le souper?” Gallagher said it’s not fair to blame the Canadiens’ medical staff for his decision to keep playing after he broke his ankle the first time. “These guys work incredibly hard,” Gallagher said about the medical staff. “They do a lot of work for us and we’re pretty much on that table every single day in there. We’ll never put the blame on them.”“We’ve always said it: There’s a difference between being injured and being hurt,” he said. “Sometimes you’re hurt and you can play through it. Sometimes you’re injured and that’s on you to understand it.