Marchand Refuses to fight Against Eller

[nbwingsfan]

Refusing to fight si that your team ends up on the PP when you're down a goal is not turtling, just so were clear

 

[Plural]

Oh really you’d take a top scorer in the league over Eller? Lol

I guess it goes without saying. Touche.

 

[compan]

I guess it goes without saying. Touche.

He’s a great player and seems to have an uncanny ability to do whatever would be the most hated thing possible in most scenarios.

 

[WilliamNylander]

Marchand just feeds off low IQ hockey players.

 

[Pizza!Pizza!]

Lars Eller drops his gloves but Brad Marchand refuses to fight

After the first game of the season Marchand jumped Eller and cut him up pretty bad. Eller tries to respond with a fair challenge to Marchand tonight and he just turtles. Afterwards Eller says “Everyone saw what he is. ... There’s not a lot of integrity in his game.”

Did Marchand violate the code of the game here or are we in a new era where all that hockey code stuff is dead?

Its Eller's fault for not chopping him in the side of his head with his stick.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

Imagine how Jack Edwards would have reacted if it were the other way around?

 

[God King Fudge]

Marchand is a hell of a player. It's a shame he plays the way he does. It really takes attention away from how good of a hockey player he actually is.

 

[SlapshotTheMovie]

He’s a great player and seems to have an uncanny ability to do whatever would be the most hated thing possible in most scenarios.

He isn't hated. He is a coward. Cowards do cowardly things and people that arent cowards get frustrated when they are rewarded for it. Other cowards see him doing cowardly things and enjoy it because they are also cowards. This isn't something that needed a thread.

 

[ref19]

Refusing to fight si that your team ends up on the PP when you're down a goal is not turtling, just so were clear

Lol c'mon man...

 

[Plural]

He’s a great player and seems to have an uncanny ability to do whatever would be the most hated thing possible in most scenarios.

Absolutely. It's his thing though, so I don't get all upset about his antics all the time. I have no applauds for him refusing Eller but I fully get why he did it. He's the definition of a guy who you hate but would love to have on your team. Sort of like Mark Messier (and I realize Messier was higher caliber player). He was so f***ing infuriating to watch when your team played against him. Vicious, dirty and yes, gutless. Yet he won games to his team on a constant basis.

I heard Gordie Howe was similar too. Although back in the days there was no choice of refusing a fight,

 

[CanuckGame39]

Marchand is a scum bag
Water is wet.

 

[Taluss]

You can hate him but don’t tell me you wouldn’t take him. Gutless pos but can do his job.

 

[nbwingsfan]

Lol c'mon man...

Yes?

 

[The Macho King]

Is it wrong that I find that hilarious? Marchand isn't a "tough guy", he's an agitator, and he got a PP out of being a punk.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

Marchand is a hell of a player. It's a shame he plays the way he does. It really takes attention away from how good of a hockey player he actually is.

Its 100% true. And he doesn't need to be a dirtbag either. Let's not get it twisted here though, he doesn't play on the edge, he regularly crosses the line. It's very hard to respect him as a player. And I know Bruins fans will sing all day about how others are jealous that my team doesn't have him. Well sure, I'd love to have him and his production. But if he were a Leaf, I'd be embarrassed by him far too often.

 

[gtrower]

Oh really you’d take a top scorer in the league over Eller? Lol

That’s Stanley Cup Winning Goal Scoring Lars the f***ing Tiger Eller to you.

 

[sfvega]

Honestly, that's on Eller. He wasn't a very willing combatant on the start of their first fight. So start without him this time.

 

[Revelation]

I don't mind him, his gutlessness permeates the rest of that team and is one of the reasons we've beat them 14 times in a row. If only we could play Marchand and the broons every round of the playoffs

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

If Eller couldn't handle himself the first time against 5'9 Marchand, there is nothing left to be said and no reason for Marchand to oblige.

 

[PromisedLand]

This!

Integrity and Marchand do not belong in the same sentence

Rat, Turtle, pos on the other hand are synonyms

 

[TD Charlie]

Turtle. You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Marchand stood there and didn’t move. Had he done something that warranted a fight, sure I’d be annoyed he didn’t answer for it. No need or reason for a fight in this situation.

 

[SanDogBrewin]

Why fight when down a goal when you're one of the teams best player? Get yourself a power play.

Marchand got the Bs a powerplay.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

I mean the Bruins were down a goal so I wouldn't want Marchand fighting there anyway.

Maybe wait till the end of the game to challenge him?

Down a goal, halfway through the game against a goalie and team you can never beat. Seems like an apt time if there ever was.

you usually don't wanna fight when your team is up and controlling the pace of the game and someone from the other team tries to change that momentum.

 

[DFC]

Absolutely. It's his thing though, so I don't get all upset about his antics all the time. I have no applauds for him refusing Eller but I fully get why he did it. He's the definition of a guy who you hate but would love to have on your team. Sort of like Mark Messier (and I realize Messier was higher caliber player). He was so ****ing infuriating to watch when your team played against him. Vicious, dirty and yes, gutless. Yet he won games to his team on a constant basis.

I heard Gordie Howe was similar too. Although back in the days there was no choice of refusing a fight,

I think "gutless" goes a little far when it comes to Messier. But yeah, I don't think people realize how dirty and vicious he was. I remember a night when it looked like he and Vladimir Konstantinov were literally trying to murder each other, or at least take out an eyeball. Butt-ends, elbows, two handers, a couple of fights. It got out of hand, even by the standards of the day.

I know it's not the "in" thing to say, but Vlad was dirty as hell too.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Ah... irony....