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Post by madmarx on Nov 1, 2022 11:57:40 GMT -5
I can’t remember a Player who started as a fourth line scrub to a top ten Player in the league. All he does is prove People wrong 👊 I can recall wanting him run out of town over the discipline issues in that first season. Glad I'm not the GM! Many on this site I remember well , I liked him from Playing for the Canadian JR’s . He really did struggle taking bad penalties.
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Post by nfld77 on Nov 14, 2022 0:51:57 GMT -5
Can you believe Marchand is 4th on the team in scoring after playing exactly half of Bruins 1st 16 games!! 8 games 5 goals 6 assists for 11 points!!
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Post by SeaBass on Nov 14, 2022 7:08:25 GMT -5
Can you believe Marchand is 4th on the team in scoring after playing exactly half of Bruins 1st 16 games!! 8 games 5 goals 6 assists for 11 points!! I can believe it. Dude is good. Now if he could only score an even strength goal
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Post by SeaBass on Nov 28, 2022 8:46:44 GMT -5
BRIGHTON, Mass. — By 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, Hampus Lindholm, Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak — the Bruins’ big boys, if you will — had long retired to their dressing room at Warrior Ice Arena. A charter member of this cohort was not among them.
Brad Marchand had work to do.
Through 13 games, the No. 1 left wing has 17 points, fourth-most on the roster after Pastrnak (32), Bergeron (19) and Lindholm (18). All three have played in eight more games than Marchand. The left wing popped in three of those points in his season debut against the Red Wings on Oct. 27.
Marchand has scored 12 of those 17 points, however, on the power play. The 34-year-old is not satisfied being a one-dimensional threat.
“I’m searching for a lot right now,” Marchand said. “I haven’t played very well. I think there was a lot of excitement that first game against Detroit. Played on a lot of adrenaline. But it’s been kind of downhill since there.”
At five-on-five, Marchand is averaging 1.5 points per 60 minutes of play, according to Natural Stat Trick. This places him 12th on the roster, well south of Pastrnak’s team-leading 2.75 P/60 standard.
As of Sunday, among forwards with 150 or more five-on-five minutes, Marchand’s 1.5 P/60 clip placed him No. 202 in the league. It takes an awful lot of scrolling, past household names like Rudolfs Balcers (1.83) and Josh Archibald (1.65) and Dakota Joshua (1.59), before Marchand’s numbers appear on the screen.
For context, Marchand has averaged better than 2.0 P/60 in 11 of the 12 previous seasons. His career best is 3.3, which he set in 2020-21 after undergoing sports hernia surgery.
Marchand knows the issue. He has yet to reach his desired threshold for fitness. This is no surprise.
On May 27, shortly after Dr. Brian Kelly took his tools to both of Marchand’s hips, the Bruins estimated Thanksgiving might be a reasonable estimate for the left wing’s return. Marchand beat that target by a month.
Accelerating his timeline, however, did not mean his conditioning would follow in lockstep. Marchand simply did not have the offseason time to put in the volume of work he likes to do to feel hockey-ready.
“I knew it was going to be a work in progress,” Marchand said. “That’s why I wanted to come back early. If I came back at the end of November, it was going to take me until January or February to feel good and get back to my game. It’s hard to gain steps on guys when we play every day. Until I’m able to start doing a little bit more, I’ll be slowly climbing.”
It’s been a different story on the power play. With the advantage of set pieces and more time to make plays, Marchand has been his usual elite self. He has grown into the Bruins’ version of Nikita Kucherov. Marchand is the team’s right-side half-wall quarterback, tasked to initiate the team’s two go-to maneuvers: Bergeron in the bumper for the half-slapper and Pastrnak’s left-elbow one-time screamer. He is averaging 11.86 points per 60 minutes of power-play time, trailing only Jamie Benn (12.92), Jason Robertson (12.38) and Connor McDavid (12.15).
Time and space are less abundant resources at five-on-five. This would usually not be a problem for Marchand. But being just a little off in strength and endurance is costing him pucks. It’s why he has only one five-on-five goal, which he didn’t score until Nov. 21 against the Lightning. Marchand scored 18 last year.
“I haven’t been great with my details and my conditioning,” Marchand said. “I’m losing a lot of battles I don’t typically lose. Getting pushed off pucks late in games where I can typically hold a guy off. It’s all things that I know and I knew coming into the year that taking four months off for me — the way I train and skate in the summertime — I knew it was going to take a while to get back to that level.”
Marchand’s assumption is that reaching peak conditioning will be the master key that unlocks every other part of his five-on-five game. He will then be the player he enjoys being: relentless on pucks, victorious in second and third efforts, a threat to score late in shifts when opponents’ legs have become wobbly.
“I typically have conditioning where I can go all game long at the tempo I feel like I need to play at to be a good player,” Marchand said. “Typically where you start to make mistakes is when you get tired. Right now, I’m getting tired a lot faster than I normally do. That’s where my details are slipping. Losing pucks at the wrong times and stuff like that. When it gets back there, all those details fall into place.”
Marchand’s game-chasing is occurring in an ideal window. The 18-3-0 Bruins are not desperate for points. Pavel Zacha and Taylor Hall, second and third on the left-wing depth chart behind Marchand, were both very good in the Bruins’ most recent 3-2 overtime win over the Hurricanes.
“I don’t worry about Marshy,” coach Jim Montgomery said. “He’s so hard on himself. His expectations and standard for excellence are unreal. I know he’s going to get to the consistency he wants. The team’s going to benefit from it.”
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 22, 2022 14:04:21 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Feb 28, 2023 9:19:05 GMT -5
Don't ever change, Brad
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Post by SeaBass on Mar 8, 2023 10:33:51 GMT -5
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Post by nfld77 on Mar 9, 2023 13:59:51 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 4, 2023 15:42:10 GMT -5
BOSTON -- After Brad Marchand scored with eight seconds remaining in overtime against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, he lifted his arms and his teammates surrounded him, a dancing, hugging mob.
The Boston Bruins captain emerged, eventually, emotionally, his gloved hand covering his face.
One day earlier, Marchand’s maternal grandmother, Frances O’Leary, died, and now here he was, scoring a game-winning goal, ending an eight-game goalless streak.
He didn’t stop there.
Marchand finished off the weekend by scoring a natural hat trick against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday at TD Garden, accounting for all of the Bruins’ goals in their 3-1 win.
“He’s a true leader,” goalie Jeremy Swayman said. “We all knew that from the beginning. For him to take it on his back and just not take no for an answer after a back-to-back and three-in-four, is what leaders do. He’s going to show up in the right times. He’s been doing that his whole career. Really special night for him, and obviously his entire family.”
The game Sunday was the Bruins’ third straight win after three straight losses in regulation, including a loss at the Blue Jackets six days earlier.
“It really felt like he just kind of threw us on his back and said, ‘I’ll take us across the finish line here’,” defenseman Charlie McAvoy said. “He has that capability. He plays with so much passion and energy, off a back-to-back and with a little bit of fatigue.
“I’m so happy for him. He’s ‘Cap.’ That’s what he does.”
After the Blue Jackets scored first, Marchand got the Bruins even at 1:56 of the third period, a snap shot from the right circle off a feed from Danton Heinen. The next two would come quickly, each on the power play, at 5:37 and 7:46 of the third. The three goals in the first 7:46 of the period were the third-fastest three goals by one player to begin a period in Bruins history behind Leo Labine on Nov. 28, 1954 (7:01) and Bobby Bauer on Nov. 20, 1946 (7:30).
It was Marchand’s sixth NHL hat trick and first NHL natural hat trick, only the third Bruins player in the past 10 years to get the latter, following Patrice Bergeron on Nov. 4, 2021, and Jan. 6, 2018, and Jake DeBrusk on Feb. 28, 2022.
Marchand had gone eight games without a goal and five games without a point before the weekend outburst.
“I think it was big, I think it meant a lot to him, especially with everything that was going on, beside the circus of the Toronto media,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “So for him to go in there and do what he does, that’s what you love about him. He’s such a competitor.”
Marchand, though, brushed that part off. He brought up that he had gone 16 games last season without a goal, stretching from March 11 to April 11.
This? This wasn’t a weight off?
“Not really,” he said. “I really wasn’t too concerned about it. I felt like I was having three or four really good opportunities to score every night. That’s how the game goes sometimes. You get one shot and you get a goal. Sometimes you get 10 and you’ll get one. I don’t judge my game based on if I score or not, it’s more about how the details are going.”
Coming into the weekend, Marchand had 19 points (seven goals, 12 assists) in the first 22 games. Heading into the Bruins’ next game, at home against the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday, Marchand has 23 points (10 goals, 12 assists) in 24 games. It’s a much more comfortable pace for a player whose 67 points (21 goals, 46 assists) last season marked a down year, at least in terms of personal production.
But, for Marchand, the weekend was far more about the bigger picture, about getting the Bruins (17-4-1) righted, even with a few extra losses in the standings. The three straight losses, the eight games without a goal, those didn’t worry him.
As he put it, “When you look at losing a couple games, for us it’s so much bigger than that.”
It’s a message that’s been passed down through the years and the leadership and the franchise.
It’s a message that Marchand, in his first season as captain, has continued to emphasize.
Because that’s yet another thing that Marchand has had to adapt to this season. Not only was he named captain Sept. 20, but he is playing the first season of his career without Bergeron, who retired July 25, and by whose side Marchand played for 14 seasons in Boston since his debut with the Bruins in 2009-10.
“I think I’m feeling a lot more comfortable now than early in the season, in training camp, just the way that we would even practice together every day. We did literally every drill together,” he said. “We were talking on the bench. So many different things changed with him leaving and it takes time sometimes to build chemistry with different guys.”
Bergeron, though, was a significant presence over the weekend, with the former captain paying a visit to the Bruins morning skate on Thursday, and with Marchand tying one of his records, joining him in fourth place among Bruins players in even-strength goals, with 274. His first of two power-play goals on Sunday also moved him past Bobby Orr for sole possession of ninth place in Bruins history with 75 power-play goals.
But though Bergeron is still giving out advice and the previous captain and the current captain remain in frequent communication, this is now Marchand’s team.
And this weekend, with a heavy heart, he carried them through.
“He’s just a special player,” McAvoy said. “It’s what he’s done his whole career. It was awesome to see not only last night, him get the winner, but carry it over to today. He means the world to this group.”
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Post by SeaBass on Feb 12, 2024 9:28:24 GMT -5
“I love to beat the Bruins,” Vegas Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said on Jan. 11. Even a Stanley Cup and a five-year contract do not make some hard feelings go away.
For all the discomfort his Boston Bruins dismissal prompted, though, the ex-coach still holds Brad Marchand in high regard. So that night, when asked about Marchand’s progression from AHL agitator to NHL captain, Cassidy practically jumped out of his chair at T-Mobile Arena to praise his ex-player, good friend and summertime house guest.
“Great to see his growth as a fourth-line guy coming in to really, truly, an elite offensive player, a full 200-foot player and a winner,” said Cassidy. “My hat goes off to him and the work he’s put in. Happy for Brad. Those are the rewarding things for me as a coach as you get through the years, when you see players grow as both players, husbands in his case and fathers. Very happy for Brad. I’m extremely happy he didn’t go off on us tonight. I think we did a good job against him. But I’m always rooting for him.”
In Providence, where they began their relationship, Cassidy knew one thing: Nobody worked harder than Marchand. Marchand’s commitment to his craft, however, did not guarantee him NHL entry, to say nothing of 1,000 career games, a level he will reach on Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Of the 35 active players whose odometers have rolled over this threshold, you could make the case that Marchand — third-round pick, AHL agitator, fourth-line grinder, eight-time suspension earner — was the unlikeliest to earn a silver stick.
“Brad was always, always, always the hardest-working guy on the ice,” Cassidy said of his time with Marchand in Providence. “You knew you were always going to get the maximum effort. But his discipline and his ability to be a supportive teammate, some of those things took a while for him to come around.”
Small and overlooked Marchand is 5-foot-9. He will become one of the shorter players to appear in 1,000 games. Club members in Marchand’s neighborhood include Pat Verbeek (5-foot-9), Martin St. Louis (5-foot-8) and Theo Fleury (5-foot-6). You get the idea. Prickliness is a mandatory personality trait.
“All the small guys have that,” coach Jim Montgomery said with a laugh. “But he personifies it to the best degree possible. People ask all the time. I’m like, ‘When you have guys like Brad Marchand that start every drill, start every drill the right way, everybody else follows suit. They understand the standard. That standard he sets as our leader is invaluable.’”
Marchand’s height was just one of the stop signs posted on his journey. He was short on the puck skills required of top-line residence. He was selfish. His temper put his team at risk.
All these things were true.
But of everything Marchand does not fear, hard work stands above the rest. Marchand loves to train, skate and compete. He also enjoys proving coaches, teammates and opponents wrong.
So through one-track commitment, Marchand shaped himself into a better offensive player, more reliable teammate and calmer on-ice presence. It took time. He didn’t mind. He liked the journey of self-improvement as much as reaching the destination.
“He doesn’t accept being put in a role,” Montgomery said. “He wants to be great. It’s that inner belief that he can work himself into being more than what other people may perceive. His whole life, he’s had a chip on his shoulder. That chip on his shoulder has allowed him to become one of the greatest Bruins of all time and one of the best leaders on our team.”
There would have been no shame had Marchand claimed his depth position long-term following his 2010-11 promotion. Cal Clutterbuck and Lars Eller have both played 1,000-plus games primarily as bottom-six forwards. Marchand could have made a good career out of being an energy wing, penalty killer and irritant.
That wasn’t his preference. So he worked himself into what he wanted to be.
“He’s not the guy who went first overall and was always destined for greatness,” Charlie McAvoy said. “That’s part of the reason why his story is so incredible. Because he worked for everything he got. What he is now is a product of that work — finding what he can do and then never being satisfied with how good he was at it. He’s still the hardest worker I think I’ve ever played with. Quietly, what he’s been able to do, the more you look at it, he looks like a Hall of Famer. I believe he’s a Hall of Fame hockey player. That in itself is amazing. He’s not done yet.”
In fact, Marchand’s latest step is still a work in progress.
Becoming a captain When Marchand hit turbulence early in his NHL career, Zdeno Chara regularly pulled him back to baseline. Marchand had no choice but to listen when the 6-foot-9 strongman insisted he settle down.
In the years to come, Patrice Bergeron developed into Chara’s virtual co-captain, then took over the job in full in 2020-21. Marchand was Bergeron’s lead alternate. Upon Bergeron’s retirement, Marchand was a natural to take over. He felt the weight of the position. His predecessors were among the best ever.
Marchand has always excelled at pushing himself to higher tiers of achievement. Urging others to do the same has not come as naturally.
At the start of 2023-24, Marchand tried different ways to reach, lead and inspire his teammates. He confirmed to himself that he was not Bergeron, who had a knack for knowing exactly what everybody needed to hear or feel.
Marchand had to find his own way. That meant, at times, not being everyone’s buddy.
“You have to grow into who you are and your comfort level as a captain,” said Montgomery. “It’s been very noticeable that he’s very direct and right to the point now, on the bench and in the room. I don’t think he’s as worried about being friends as he is about being a captain who holds people accountable. Bergeron had an incredible ability to be empathetic and hold people accountable at the same time. It’s rare that someone has that ability. Not everybody has that ability to be empathetic toward everyone else. But you’ve got to be who you are. That’s why when Brad walks in the room now, it’s clear: That’s our captain. That’s our leader.”
The Bruins are No. 1 in the Eastern Conference. They remain one of the NHL’s standards for year-to-year stability. Part of that is because of Marchand’s continuation of what his predecessors put in place.
“Over the last 10 years, if you look at their leadership group, it’s probably one of the best leadership groups, I think, in hockey,” said Vancouver Canucks coach Rick Tocchet. “It starts with Chara. Obviously, Bergeron. They passed it down to Marchand, (David) Pastrnak.”
On Sept. 26, 2016, Marchand signed his eight-year, $49 million contract. He was in Toronto at the time, competing for Team Canada in the World Cup of Hockey. He elevated to world-class status at the tournament. The left wing, playing with Bergeron and Sidney Crosby, helped Canada win gold.
Seven seasons later, Marchand has just one year remaining on his deal. He does not intend for it to be his last. He wants another Stanley Cup. He dreams of playing in the Olympics for the first time, perhaps on a line with Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon, his fellow Nova Scotians. With 90 more points, he would break the 1,000-point threshold.
All of that is beyond his original insecurities.
“It was a goal at one point,” said Marchand. “Then not too long ago, it was no longer a goal. Because I have much larger goals now. I still plan on playing for a lot of years. A thousand games seems like just a bump in the road compared to playing 1,300 or 1,400 or whatever it could end up being at the end of the day. It’s something I want to sit back and be proud of. Because I never thought I’d get here. I didn’t really expect to get here. But now it’s just another game. I plan on playing a lot more.”
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Post by SeaBass on Feb 12, 2024 10:23:22 GMT -5
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Post by crafar01 on Feb 12, 2024 10:31:37 GMT -5
I wasn't thrilled about him getting the C, but so far this year, he's done a pretty decent job. Many times this season, he's been the spark that got these clowns going on nights where just almost every other player on the team looked out to lunch.
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Post by SeaBass on Feb 12, 2024 12:15:28 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Feb 12, 2024 12:19:23 GMT -5
Barring, say, an unpredicted event of nature, Brad Marchand will play his 1,000th regular-season game Tuesday night when the Bruins face the Lightning at TD Garden.
An unpredicted force of nature since soon after he made landfall on Causeway Street during the 2009-10 season, Marchand, 35, will become only the eighth player to suit up 1,000 times for the Black and Gold. That’s an impressive feat for a guy initially sized up by most of the Hub of Hockey’s vulcanized cognoscenti as a fourth-line stocking filler (guilty hand raised here). Remember, for all his boundless energy, he contributed all of one assist in 20 games that first season in what was a remarkably unremarkable debut.
Brad Marchand? That guy, 1,000 games? Sure, and Evgeni Ryabchikov for the Black and Gold’s All-Century team. These were the days talk show host and one-time Bruins beat reporter Michael Felger called Marchand “Marchmant” on air and no one much cared. These were days when coach Claude Julien, though appreciative of the little guy’s gargantuan effort, mostly buttoned him into bottom-six and penalty-killing roles. Power play? Marchand? What the hell do ya mean, power play?!
As first impressions went, Marchand was the 5-foot-9-inch misfit toy who appeared destined to be a guy packaged into a trade as a sweetener in order to get a front-line player, a difference-maker, maybe a bigger, stronger, elite, legit NHL forward. Size matters and all that, right?
Flash forward, and after his key contributions helped the Bruins win the Stanley Cup in the spring of 2011, Marchand was among the first Bruins praised by President Obama during the club’s White House reception. POTUS, it turned out, knew some pucks.
“Brad Marchand went into the season playing on the fourth line,” duly noted the then-Commander in Chief, struggling initially to locate the then 23-year-old winger standing to his right (off wing), “but the Little Ball of Hate shook off the rookie jitters and … uh … what’s up with that nickname, man?”
The audience, with then-Boston mayor, Tom Menino, sitting in the front row, chuckled over both the nickname and the president’s impeccable comedic delivery.
“And,” added Obama, “he scored five goals in the last five games of the Final series.”
A dozen years after that Pennsylvania Avenue moment, Marchand is the Bruins’ first-year captain, going into the weekend with 397 goals and 910 points, on the doorstep of joining the elite company of Ray Bourque (1,518), Johnny Bucyk (1,436), Patrice Bergeron (1,294), Don Sweeney (1,052), David Krejci (1,032), Wayne Cashman (1,027), and Zdeno Chara (1,023) in the Bruins’ 1K club. Cashman, Bergeron, and Krejci, by the way, are the only ones as of today to spend their entire careers with the Black and Gold. Impossible to imagine Marchand ever playing anywhere else.
“I mean, his career is amazing, really, because he’s not the guy that went first overall, that you thought was destined for greatness,” said an admiring Charlie McAvoy, Bruins defenseman and alternate captain. “I think that’s part of the reason why his story is just so incredible. Because he worked for everything that he got and what he is now is a product of that work — and you know, sort of finding what he could do and then never being satisfied with that.”
Marchand, in fact, was the Bruins’ fourth pick, No. 71 overall, in the 2006 draft, following Phil Kessel (5), Yuri Alexandrov (37), and Milan Lucic (50). He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and played two more seasons years in the Quebec League before turning pro with AHL Providence in the spring of ‘08. Though he was never his junior team’s top scorer, he produced more than a point per game his final two seasons in the Q.
Something was up. Marchand proved in junior that he had a nose for the net, that he was a little guy with oversized will and grit. It was much the same in Providence for his season-plus in the AHL under coach Bruce Cassidy’s watchful eye. It has been the same in Boston, shift by shift, for most of his 15 years.
“What makes him tick is, he doesn’t accept being [typecast]. He wants to be great,” said Bruins coach Jim Montgomery. “That inner belief that he can work himself into being more than what other people may perceive. You know, his whole life he’s had a chip on his shoulder and I think that chip on his shoulder has allowed him to become one of the greatest Bruins of all time and one of the best leaders of our team.”
Montgomery, at 5-10, has lived the chip life.
“All of us short guys” are accustomed to it, he said, with a knowing chuckle.
“The chip that , ‘You don’t think I’m as good offensively as I am.’ That, ‘You don’t think I’m as tough as I am,’ ” added the coach, describing the mentality and accompanying motivation. “He personifies it to the best degree possible. People ask me all the time, and I’m like, ‘When you have guys like Marchand that start every drill, start the drill the right way, everyone else follows suit.’ They understand the standard and that standard he sets as our leader is invaluable.”
Charlie Coyle came to the Bruins in a trade with Minnesota in 2019. Marchand’s career and reputation — a bit, shall we say, edgy at times — were long established by then. A Weymouth native, constantly updated on the Bruins by friends and family, Coyle figured he already had a good read on Marchand prior to pulling on the same eight-spoked B.
“Yeah, everyone knows of Marchy,” said Coyle, these days Marchand’s pivot on the club’s No. 1 line. “You hear all the talk … highlight-reel goals and this and that … the antics. But getting to know a guy like that, and getting to play with him, and seeing how hard he works, where he’s kind of come from and how he’s worked for everything, and now he is such an established player — one of the best players in the league. It’s great to see that.”
Marchand, noted Coyle, comes with an added bonus.
“When you see people get success, and you meet ‘em,” Coyle said, “and they’re such great people and they have work ethic, they compete … and they’re great teammates, just love rooting for those people, makes you root for ‘em even more.”
Marchand and Vegas defenseman Alex Pietrangelo (Monday against Minnesota) will cross the 1,000-game line virtually hand in hand, the latest names on a list that stood at 385 as the weekend arrived. The 6-3 Pietrangelo, the No. 4 pick in the ‘08 draft, was destined for this day months, if not years, before the Blues picked him after Steven Stamkos (Tampa Bay), Drew Doughty (Los Angeles), and Zach Bogosian (Atlanta) were off the board.
In his draft class, Marchand was taken one pick after Robin Figren (NY Islanders), a Swedish winger who never made it to the NHL, and one pick before Cal Clutterbuck (Minnesota), perennially among the game’s top volume hitters.
Clutterbuck earlier this season careened his way to the 1,000-game plateau. As of late this past week, he had 3,935 career hits, No. 1 in the NHL for as long as the league has kept track of smacks. Much like Marchand, he was a “reach” pick in the draft, one who then identified a way to make it to the NHL with a work ethic that turned his game, and career, into a brand.
“For someone like me, you want to chase that,” said McAvoy when asked how Marchand has influenced his game. “You want to be remembered in the same way. And you don’t have to look any further, [if asking], ‘OK, how?’ Well, he works harder than everybody else, so I have to work as hard as him. And someone who can lead by example like that is just special, it’s a very special trait, extremely special. He makes me want to be better. He makes us all want to be better.”
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Post by madmarx on Feb 12, 2024 13:18:03 GMT -5
I wasn't thrilled about him getting the C, but so far this year, he's done a pretty decent job. Many times this season, he's been the spark that got these clowns going on nights where just almost every other player on the team looked out to lunch. It came down to Brad or Mac , Brads game is way more consistent this year than Mac .
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Post by crafar01 on Feb 13, 2024 6:39:10 GMT -5
I wasn't thrilled about him getting the C, but so far this year, he's done a pretty decent job. Many times this season, he's been the spark that got these clowns going on nights where just almost every other player on the team looked out to lunch. It came down to Brad or Mac , Brads game is way more consistent this year than Mac . Probably that and what would it have done to Marchand's attitude had they given it to someone else? I know he's a team player and all that, but there's no way that it wouldn't have stuck with him.
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Post by orym on Feb 13, 2024 9:44:36 GMT -5
It came down to Brad or Mac , Brads game is way more consistent this year than Mac . Probably that and what would it have done to Marchand's attitude had they given it to someone else? I know he's a team player and all that, but there's no way that it wouldn't have stuck with him. As the only guy left from 2011, I think it made sense to give it to him now. I agree, he would have been pretty upset if it went to McAvoy now. When Marchy hangs 'em up, then the torch gets passed. Still pretty cool to go pickup a Marchand jersey with the "C" on it I'd say!
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Post by crafar01 on Feb 13, 2024 9:49:33 GMT -5
Probably that and what would it have done to Marchand's attitude had they given it to someone else? I know he's a team player and all that, but there's no way that it wouldn't have stuck with him. As the only guy left from 2011, I think it made sense to give it to him now. I agree, he would have been pretty upset if it went to McAvoy now. When Marchy hangs 'em up, then the torch gets passed. Still pretty cool to go pickup a Marchand jersey with the "C" on it I'd say! Yup, I actually got the new white version for Christmas. I also found an authentic Bergeron Centennial 3rd jersey for a decent price, $175 from SportsK.
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Post by madmarx on Apr 26, 2024 6:28:21 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on Apr 26, 2024 8:24:57 GMT -5
Great words from the Great One. Weird thing in the back of my mind since this series started. If we can beat the Leafs this year, Bertuzzi will come back to Boston and it will be because of Marchand. He looks up to Marchand I think and he tries to play the same type of game. Not comparing him skill wise but if we can get him and spend a couple years with Marchand it’d be a good get for the Bruins.
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Post by orym on Apr 26, 2024 10:16:43 GMT -5
Great words from the Great One. Weird thing in the back of my mind since this series started. If we can beat the Leafs this year, Bertuzzi will come back to Boston and it will be because of Marchand. He looks up to Marchand I think and he tries to play the same type of game. Not comparing him skill wise but if we can get him and spend a couple years with Marchand it’d be a good get for the Bruins. That's pretty cool hearing that from Wayne. The Theo Fleury comparison is a good one too I thought. Theo played with a real chip on his shoulder. Theo and Brad are small guys but they play like they are 10 feet tall. I am still baffled by Bertuzzi signing with the Leafs. He'd be a great fit on the Bruins and I'd for sure welcome him back for the right $$$.
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Post by kjc2 on Apr 26, 2024 13:56:25 GMT -5
Great words from the Great One. Weird thing in the back of my mind since this series started. If we can beat the Leafs this year, Bertuzzi will come back to Boston and it will be because of Marchand. He looks up to Marchand I think and he tries to play the same type of game. Not comparing him skill wise but if we can get him and spend a couple years with Marchand it’d be a good get for the Bruins. That's pretty cool hearing that from Wayne. The Theo Fleury comparison is a good one too I thought. Theo played with a real chip on his shoulder. Theo and Brad are small guys but they play like they are 10 feet tall. I am still baffled by Bertuzzi signing with the Leafs. He'd be a great fit on the Bruins and I'd for sure welcome him back for the right $$$. I think not signing Bertuzzi last summer was all about bad timing. He had a number in mind which we couldn’t do, he tried the same contract value in Toronto and elsewhere but had to switch gears and the Bruins had used up the small amount of cap space they left. Hopefully we’re on his radar in the offseason unless the Leafs ante up before we get a chance. I guess if Brad can get in his head and we can eliminate the Leafs that would go a long way into get a shot at signing Bert.
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Post by madmarx on Apr 26, 2024 14:58:07 GMT -5
Great words from the Great One. Weird thing in the back of my mind since this series started. If we can beat the Leafs this year, Bertuzzi will come back to Boston and it will be because of Marchand. He looks up to Marchand I think and he tries to play the same type of game. Not comparing him skill wise but if we can get him and spend a couple years with Marchand it’d be a good get for the Bruins. That's pretty cool hearing that from Wayne. The Theo Fleury comparison is a good one too I thought. Theo played with a real chip on his shoulder. Theo and Brad are small guys but they play like they are 10 feet tall. I am still baffled by Bertuzzi signing with the Leafs. He'd be a great fit on the Bruins and I'd for sure welcome him back for the right $$$. I remember reading Theo’s book many years ago Playing with Fire really crazy ride he had . The comparison with Marchand is definitely a good one triple thousand club not many of those Players. We are spoiled with Wayne on the broadcasts and his knowledge and stories he brings.
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