Should Marchand be suspended?
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Before I answer this, I have a question for you.
Say that Marchand does something that for a player with no discipline history would be either a fine or maximum 1 game suspension (say a spear or nut shot, for example)... Then say that 1 year later he does again the exact same thing... Then say that again 2 years later he does again the same thing... Then say that 2 years later he does the same thing again... What would be the discipline that you would deem appropriate for instance #1, #2, #3 and #4?
PS: Marchand, for the situations this thread was created, didn't do anything to warrant any discipline.
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eviohh26
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Look, I dislike Marchand and the Bruins as much as anybody :p
But when you start saying you need to evaluate one incident based on the past, where does it stops : period, game, week, month, year, years?
If the refs called it the way I did, I'm sure there wouldn't be a thread today. Even more if the slash, which was the worst imo, got suspended or penalized for 5+game (like I said depends on what happened before)... slashes like this happen every now and than... depends of the context imo
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the repeat offender designation doesn't have anything to do with suspension length. It just determines salary forfeiture amounts as part of the CBA. A players entire history is used to determine suspension lengths.
It's worth noting, however that history does not affect the decision on determining if a player *should* be suspended... its just used as a contributing factor in determining length
Maybe you could argue on the slash for a suspension. Just by posting all the other plays undermines OPs argument though. The others aren't even close to being suspension worthy. If this was anyone else and they posted the other three incidents hed be laughed off the board.
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Just curious. I honestly don’t know. Is Marchand responsible for any predatory headshots? Or is more of an opportunist? I saw the Duclair hit and it seems to me Duclair caught his skate in a rut. And the other hits I’ve seen (certainly not every questionable one) have been dirty but inconsequential. I mean, he’s certainly a prick on the ice. But I haven’t seen him put other players at risk or in serious danger. I assume I’m wrong but just want to know for sure as he’s become a pretty big topic.
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Nothing he did was likely suspendable. Several possible "intent" to injure or at least doing things that can have significant consequence. That said, it boggles my mind on the stick swing that he wouldn't be turfed from the game. No discipline outside that but if that swing connects, there's a pretty high chance for injury unless equipment saves the day. Honestly though, I would have kicked him out of the game for that.
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Marchand is the dirtiest rat that plays in the NHL, bar none. He did not only butt end Anderson here, but he also 2 hand swung his stick like a baseball bat at Morgan Rielly in the same game. One day someone is going to take his head clean off his shoulders.
I will laugh if Toronto comes back to beat Boston in this series now! If Toronto wins the next game and ties this series at two, don’t second-guess it.
I will laugh if Toronto comes back to beat Boston in this series now! If Toronto wins the next game and ties this series at two, don’t second-guess it.
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put Matt Martin in for the sole purposes of ending him, I don’t care.
Randy Randerson
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seems more like he takes shots where he thinks he'll get away with them. Doesn't usually take runs like Kadri did to get suspended because those are obvious and are met with consequences, but he has no issue trying to annoy/injure players where he thinks he'll get away with it. I'd agree that most of Marchand's antics are not major injury risks because he's trying to sneak them in where refs won't see
in this thread, the one that was probably the most dangerous was the one on Johnsson and I'm sure that he intended to go into that skates-up but impossible to prove so it's hard to punish
he's good at the rat role
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After reading this thread you are full of shit if you claim Bruins fans wouldn't call that Kadri hit clean if it was Marchand doing it to Kapanen.
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Dumb post. Why don't you watch him for 82 games and see how much of a joke your post is.
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Watching him lumberjack chop Rielly while skating away waiting for his boys to show up felt like watching 82 games of Brad distilled.
This is so blatantly false. Many would be ostracizing him and he would've got 10 games.
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What? I don't know how you got that out of what I said.
I said many of us would be ostracizing him and he would get 10 games. It's what I wrote.
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