Marchand and Bruins continue to show their lack of class
This is who Brad Marchand(notes) is for the Boston Bruins, 92 games and parts of two seasons into his NHL career: A player who can deflate an opponent with a brilliant shorthanded goal, like the one he scored against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night; and a player that will reinvigorate that opponent with an ill-advised taunt.
Like, for example, mocking the Leafs bench by mimicking a golf swing, as he did during the second period of the Bruins' 4-3 shootout loss. Which really isn't the epitome of sportsmanship, despite its undeniable accuracy.
From Matt Kalman and The Bruins Blog:
After a scrum, Marchand made a golf-swing gesture that probably got under the skin of some of the blue-and-white-wearing players. It also irked the Bruins' bench boss.
"I got a little bit of an earful [from Claude Julien between periods]," admitted Marchand after the game, "it won't happen again."
Marchand said that Phil Kessel(notes) popped him in the mouth and there should've been a penalty. Instead there was a razzing from the bench and then the gesture. "That was a little immature of me. I shouldn't have done that," said the pesky winger.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall for that coach/rookie conversation, considering that on March 31 and after a tough loss, the second question Julien received in his postgame press conference was about Marchand's maturity. The coach said:
"It's just one of those things. He's been a good player for us and, again, his emotions can sometimes be a positive but sometimes you don't want to cross the line. You certainly don't like that when it happens. So it's just a learning process."
Yet for the yappy and scrappy Marchand, it's par for the course.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Bruins-Marchand-regrets...
First Thornton goes after an entire bench because they taunt him, then Marchand turns around and taunts the Leafs, pretty much reinvigorating them and costing the Bruins the game. but no bro, PK Subban is the only cocky player. And the Habs instigated him into doing the taunt.
Fail. #Hockey
HAHAH, your going to hate me. But I added Marchand to my TCL pool. And I also traded away for him in my NHL 2011 Be a GM. I freakin love him. hahahahh. sorry Prax. You can" pink slip" me for that.
He's a good player, but he's a hypocrite and a jackass. The guy has no class, and he's a man-child. He likely chirps on the ice just as much as anyone else, then he turns around to the media and whines about the Habs starting everything and bitching about Subban and everything? Subban might be a jackass on the ice but he's a class act when it comes to dealing with the media, and he knows how to handle his own success. It's clearly gone to his head, for Marchand, and if anyone needs to be put in his place it's him.
Very good player, but yeah he's got some growing up to do. That can be said of quite a few Bruins players actually.
My Leafs may not be a playoff team this year, but at least they have respect. I mean, hell, how else would Brett Lebda ever get a shift?
My Leafs may not be a playoff team this year, but at least they have respect. I mean, hell, how else would Brett Lebda ever get a shift?
lmao. I'll tell you, all this shit with the Bruins this year has really made me realize I actually do have some respect for the Leafs and Flyers. Flyers fans (and Philly fans in general) can be assholes but there are a lot of good ones. Leafs fans for the most part just care about their team. The Bruins and their fans though... Enemy number one.