Marchands rap sheet is virtually non existent(a handful of half slew foots resulting in no serious injuries) and he's trending towards a HOF career.
How would it be bad to play like him?
Marchands rap sheet is virtually non existent(a handful of half slew foots resulting in no serious injuries) and he's trending towards a HOF career.
How would it be bad to play like him?
If you need it explained, then nothing I say well change your opinion. We'll just leave it at that.
Marchands rap sheet is virtually non existent(a handful of half slew foots resulting in no serious injuries) and he's trending towards a HOF career.
How would it be bad to play like him?
There's two sides to Marchand. There is Marchand the hockey player, who is one of the best in the league right now, and their is Marchand the competitor, who has a complete lack of respect for the well being of his fellow hockey players. This is not "virtually non-existent" this is actually pretty prominent compared to the rest of the league. https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/bruins/brad-marchands-suspension-history
It's one thing if you want to have someone play like Marchand the hockey player, it's something else if you want Marchand the competitor. Does he make your team better? Significantly. Does he also make it difficult as a fan who wants to be a respectful organization? Significantly.
We already have a player on the team who has a similar game to that dirty rat Marchand... and I love him, his name is Tyler Bertuzzi.
Uh? What dirty things has Bertuzzi even done?
Throwing uppercuts at a guy in a headlock while on the bench comes to mind.
There's two sides to Marchand. There is Marchand the hockey player, who is one of the best in the league right now, and their is Marchand the competitor, who has a complete lack of respect for the well being of his fellow hockey players. This is not "virtually non-existent" this is actually pretty prominent compared to the rest of the league. https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/bruins/brad-marchands-suspension-history
It's one thing if you want to have someone play like Marchand the hockey player, it's something else if you want Marchand the competitor. Does he make your team better? Significantly. Does he also make it difficult as a fan who wants to be a respectful organization? Significantly.
Ah yes, the play where Calvert spears Bertuzzi on the bench and everyone in the media pretended like Calvert did absolutely nothing.
His suspension history supports my case imo.
His suspension history supports my case imo. His rookie year he needed to be reigned in. Everything else is pretty tame in a historical context. Yzerman and Kozlov have offenses that would register on the scale that resulted in that list.
In comparison to his reputation, his rap sheet is pretty pedestrian imo. Not saying it hasnt been blood boiling at times, but keep in mind we're not even talking about Marchand, somehow this all needs to result in me altering my perception of Krug as a player.
I am 100% down with character and integrity being valued above all else in an athlete. But I also think it's important to be realistic, and in a league where people have seriously harmed one another, i'm having trouble seeing how Marchand is an outlier when everyone seems to have skated away fine since his rookie year, and he's 30 at this point.
Maybe he's been lucky, and you guys are right on that he's a pos that is going to hurt someone one day. But I think people are too eager to put players like Marchand and Perry on the serious offenders list because of how consistently ugly, annoying and successful they were.
If you think those guys are bad, what must you think of players like Dubinsky and Neal?
Throwing uppercuts at a guy in a headlock while on the bench comes to mind.
Calverts play was dirty too, whats your point? Is it not dirty to throw uppercuts at a guy when your on the bench and hes in a headlock?
Ya know who else is dirty AF. Larkin. Larkin hacks, slashes, crosschecks all day long.. and I love him.
If Marchand was on the Wings, you and all the other haters would love him. (Me included)
Calverts play was dirty too, whats your point? Is it not dirty to throw uppercuts at a guy when your on the bench and hes in a headlock?
Ya know who else is dirty AF. Larkin. Larkin hacks, slashes, crosschecks all day long.. and I love him.
If Marchand was on the Wings, you and all the other haters would love him. (Me included)
Nice try with that. You think I was a fan of Avery or Hatcher? And I was following Phoenix too during the Tippett era and I certainly didn't start liking Raffi Torres. I'm lucky the Wings never truly had any dirty players (as far as I can remember), but I will say that I started hating Smith after his headshot in one preseason game. So NO, I would never ever love Marchand. Weak argument.
Also, let's not even talk about how you even try to compare Larkin to a player like Marchand, just wow. If Larkin is dirty AF, then what is Marchand? A cold blooded killer who happened to miss all of his targets up until now?
Non existent?Marchands rap sheet is virtually non existent(a handful of half slew foots resulting in no serious injuries) and he's trending towards a HOF career.
How would it be bad to play like him?
sure lets go ahead and pretend that 99% of Wings fans wouldn't have loved Sean Avery if he was a career Wing that peaked as a 100 point guy
we'd be talking about whether we should retire his number about now
Trying to equate Larkin with Marchand is as desperate as it is hilarious.Calverts play was dirty too, whats your point? Is it not dirty to throw uppercuts at a guy when your on the bench and hes in a headlock?
Ya know who else is dirty AF. Larkin. Larkin hacks, slashes, crosschecks all day long.. and I love him.
If Marchand was on the Wings, you and all the other haters would love him. (Me included)
Nice try with that. You think I was a fan of Avery or Hatcher? And I was following Phoenix too during the Tippett era and I certainly didn't start liking Raffi Torres. I'm lucky the Wings never truly had any dirty players (as far as I can remember), but I will say that I started hating Smith after his headshot in one preseason game. So NO, I would never ever love Marchand. Weak argument.
Also, let's not even talk about how you even try to compare Larkin to a player like Marchand, just wow. If Larkin is dirty AF, then what is Marchand? A cold blooded killer who happened to miss all of his targets up until now?
Trying to equate Larkin with Marchand is as desperate as it is hilarious.
I've been on record saying that I would take Marchand on the Wings, and I'm a big fan of Marchand the hockey player. Don't know what you're trying to prove in that respect.
You know what every single hockey player does in every single game? Slashes and crosschecks. You know what every player doesn't do? Slewfoot, elbow, knee, target the head, spear, take out knees. Go find me a single example of Dylan Larkin doing anything in this video. I won't wait for a response because I don't have forever.
Just because I like the player, doesn't mean I like the antics.
Were you a fan of Chelios? McCarty? Kocur? Probert?
I didn't compare Larkin to Marchand, I said Larkin is dirty. Larkins dirty plays lead to him getting into the fight that put him out for a few weeks at the end of the year.
All 4 are a little before my time.
But I feel like you don't really grasp how dirty Marchand is.