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He's the best player on the team and has been for 4 years.
Yeppers
He's the best player on the team and has been for 4 years.
Yeppers
Little guy just keeps coming up big - really is a gem and amazed how I take him for granted. Also amazed how effective he is at his size and without game breaking speed. Anyway glad he’s on our club and we don’t have to face him
Life after 'The Lick': Is the Bruins' Brad Marchand on the other side of $879,522.46 of angst?
Bruce Cassidy addressed Marchand’s legacy. The left wing had turned 30 the month before. It was time, Cassidy said, that Marchand thought about how he wanted to be remembered, even if the end wasn’t close.
Julie Cassidy says she didn’t know her guest as Marshy, Little Ball of Hate, a rat or a licker. He was Brad: a good husband, father, son, grandson and brother.
“It’s disappointing,” she told Marchand of the lick’s aftermath, “because this is not who you are.”
Marchand acknowledged his mistake.
“This is what I did wrong. Hard stop,” Julie Cassidy recalls Marchand saying. “This is how I want to move forward.”
The evening concluded. The families said their goodbyes. As Marchand drove home, he reflected on how the Cassidys — his friends, not his coach and his coach’s wife — helped sharpen the realization that he was at a crossroads.
“You’ve got to put your pride aside a little bit and think long-term,” Marchand said. “That’s what I started to do — look a little further down the road, look at the guys around me that have had success and all kinds of good praise and try to follow their footsteps. It just opened my eyes a little bit and allowed me to try to make good decisions in my actions and my mindset.”
Marchand has played 207 games without an incident: no fines, no suspensions, nothing since that dinner at the Cassidys.
Amazing too considering he takes regular shifts on the PK unlike the other elite offensive players in the league.Since the start of the 16/17 season, only McDavid and Kucherov have more points-per-game than Brad. That's 5 seasons of super-elite hockey. I think it is time to start thinking of him as a future hall of famer, especially, if he can keep this up for a few more years.
I already consider him a future HOF player.Since the start of the 16/17 season, only McDavid and Kucherov have more points-per-game than Brad. That's 5 seasons of super-elite hockey. I think it is time to start thinking of him as a future hall of famer, especially, if he can keep this up for a few more years.
To be fair, at the rate he scores on the PK, it does not hurt his offensive numbers too muchAmazing too considering he takes regular shifts on the PK unlike the other elite offensive players in the league.
I do too and on hockey terms he is well on his way. But I feel that he may be hurt by his controversial reputation, which to be fair, is often warranted, although he has turned the page on his antics in the last few seasons. Winning the Gold with Canada next year would probably go a long way for him to overcome that hurdle.I already consider him a future HOF player.
I already consider him a future HOF player.
Let's look at the possbility of Marchand in the HHOFI do too and on hockey terms he is well on his way. But I feel that he may be hurt by his controversial reputation, which to be fair, is often warranted, although he has turned the page on his antics in the last few seasons. Winning the Gold with Canada next year would probably go a long way for him to overcome that hurdle.
Player | Goal Finishes | Assist finishes | Point Finishes | Selke finishes | All-star team voting | Hart Voting |
Marchand | 4,6 | 5,8 | 5,5,6, | 9,10 | 1,2,2,4,5 | 5,7,9 |
Kariya | 4,7,9,10 | 3,8 | 3,3,4,7 | - | 1,1,1,2,6,7,7,8 | 2,8,9 |
Heatley | 2,5,6,8,8,9 | - | 4,4,9 | - | 1,2,4,4,5 | 10 |
Tkachuk | 1,6,7,7,10 | - | - | - | 2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6 | 10 |
Hossa | 4,5,5,6 | - | 5,6 | 5,7,10 | 2,3,3,3,6 | 10 |
Fleury | 2,6,7 | 6,7 | 6,7,8 | 5 | 2,3,3,4,7,10 | 5,5 |
Iginla | 1,1,3,3 | 10 | 1,3,6,8 | - | 1,1,1,2,3,5,5,7,7 | 2,2,3,10 |
St. Louis | 4,5 | 1,1,2,5,7,9 | 1,1,2,5,6 | 4, | 1,2,2,2,2,3,5,6,7,8 | 1,3,9 |
Recchi | 9 | 1,4,7,9 | 3,4,5,10 | - | 2,4,4,4,5,7,7 | 6,9 |
Alfredsson | 9,9,9 | 8 | 4,7,9 | 4,10 | 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,9 | 5, |
Shanahan | 5,6,6,9,10 | - | 8,10 | - | 1,1,2,3,3,4,4,4,4,6,7,9,10 | 9, |