Brad Marchand is a rat’s rat

Your unbiase reporting proves all that is wrong with the game today, your so called reporting has “Big Nose Marchand” exchanging punches with Sedin towards the end of last nigths game. The replay clearly shows Marchand punching Sedin 6 times in the face wih his glove on ( Would love to see him drop the gloves and fight someone sometime) and for this you think this is hockey. I was a Bruin fan, but they don’t seem to get a grasp on what they are doing to the game that the NHL is trying unseccessfully to sell in the states. This isn’t hockey and for idiots like you to write about it shows how little you know about the game. When Horton went down you screamed bloodly murder, where is that reporting today now that Mason Raymond is out with a broken back from a late hit from Boychuk. Be a homer but a least report about the game and how it is played not a “rat’ using another player as a “punching bag”, Your words not mine.

Kevin,

A, You are not a Bruins fan nor have you ever been. I have seen other posts on here by you in this series that reflect this. You are a Canucks fan, just be honest.

B. Marchand was not exchanging punches with Sedin, because Sedin did not throw any. Sedin stood there like a little girl while the smaller Marchand punched him six times in the face. At what point is Sedin going to take off his panties and fight back? If Sedin dropped his gloves then I guarantee Marchand would have fought him. If Marchand drops his gloves and Sedin doesn’t then Marchand gets a fight instigator penalty which is a 2 minute minor and a ten minute misconduct which is why Marchand left his gloves on in that instance.

C. The Bruins do not need to win to sell hockey in the United States. In fact, if the NHL was trying to push their brand to the US then they would be having small market teams in non traditional hockey towns winning every year to help spread the game. Boston, and New England in general; is one of the strongest hockey markets in the USA with or without the Bruins being relevant. Also, it seems the NHL is trying to go back to it’s roots by putting a team in Winnipeg and possibly Quebec City. The NHL does need to remember its audience is not the same as the NBA and should cater to it’s core fans rather than trying to reach out to new markets.

D. Mason Raymond was not hit late, there was no penalty on the play and there was no missed call. That was Boychuk finishing off his hit legally and Raymond got hurt. The only issue for me is, why did the Canucks trainers let him skate off the ice with a broken back?

E. Rat is a pretty good way to describe Marchand who plays on the edge and pulls a bunch of cheap crap during the game. If he was on another team I would hate this guy, but as he is on our team, we love him. Sure, he does go over the line on occasion but he does not ever intentionally injure people the way Matt Cooke does. Also Marchand does drop his gloves. If you remember when he ducked Sedin after the whistle; Marchand got up and immediately dropped gloves and was ready to fight with the Canucks defenseman who got tackled by Marchand.

Marchand has played far better than I ever expected. He certainly plays with desire and seems to be completely fearless out there. He certainly knows how to beat Luongo btw, which seems to be shoot HIGH GLOVE SIDE.

Go Bruins!

Kevin is a sad sad Canadian…

I love that little ferret face Marchand! GO B’S. WIN THIS THING AND STICK UP THEIR COLLECTIVE BUTTS.

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Deano, nice name pal, does your husband have a cool name just like you. Your choice of spending so much time breaking down my comments like you needed to take them personally like I know you or even care. Let me reply to your ramblings;
A) Never been on this sight until today.
B)Your referense to ones panties tells me where your thought process is.
C)It’s that good old american thinking that has Winnipeg getting a team, they know the game, unlike americans like you who know so little about the game.
D) Did you watch the game last night, to say because it was not called that it was not a late hit is like saying Rome’s hit on Horton wasn’t late. Don’t be such a bias idiot, or at least don’t comment on things that you know nothing about. You cry about the Rome hit and somehow find the Boychek hit acceptable, time to losen those panties and give your head a shake.
E) A Rat that plays on the edge is still a rat, and if Big Nose is a poster child for Bruin hockey I say you can have him. I used to love Bruins hockey and many true fans of the game still do, but for you to be proud of what your watching and condone it is sticking your head in the sand. I say what goes around comes around pal so don’t start screamimg when things go against your team, grow up.

Kevin you need to finish every sentance with an eh because you are a poor little Canadian whiner .

The canucks should be embarassed. Less than two minutes left in the game and one of their star players stands there like a frightened child and doesn’t punch the little pain in the arse in the head. The canooks have no balls. Marchand should have been dropped for his BS. The Bruins play with heart and an edge. The Canucks shrivel up and sit at the end of the bench thinking they played well after getting ripped for 17 goals in a little over 5 periods in Boston. If Chris Kelly’s shot had gone in last Friday instead of off the crossbar this would be over. The canooks better grow a set or they will continue their tradition of ineptitude. Talent vs Heart which will win?

I wanted to share this with all my new friends in Bean-town, it says alot and although it sometimes uses big words, I sure you will get the jest of the letter, just ask your mommies to help you with the bigger words. I did not write this I just agree with it.

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An Open Letter to the NHL,

I’m writing this with no particular direction and no particular agenda aside from the fact that I need to tell you that your product is suffering from one major flaw that could potentially cost you a lot of fans.

This flaw is polarizing your sport and it is isolating a lot of hockey fans. This flaw is forcing me to rethink my support of your brand.

This flaw is inconsistency.

Game three of the Stanley Cup Finals saw a competitive start to a high-energy game. Coach Julien had earlier made the roster change to include veteran tough guy and disturber, Shawn Thornton. One of his more appealing qualities, when he’s on your team at least, is to get under the skin and agitate his opponents.

I don’t need to tell you about the events of him antagonizing Aaron Rome in the game, and in the following play a late, but clean, hit led to the unfortunate concussion of Nathan Horton.

I was not impressed with the call to eject him from the game, but I thought because of the extent of the injury and the response of the fans it was a safe call for the officials to make. The subsequent deflation and penalty killing that the Canucks had to do was a difficult time for the team, add the superb play of goaltender Tim Thomas in net, the Canucks didn’t have a fun time in Boston.

The following day, talk of suspension started, I was a little peturbed but I thought “well if the NHL wants to send a message for dirty calls, they may give him a game or two.”

He got 4.

Never in the history of the Stanley Cup finals has a player been suspended for more than a game, and for a game with all the dirty play and gestures in poor taste made by the opposing team – including an attempt of a flying elbow, with obvious intent to injure made towarrds a particular hart-winning Canuck – I thought it was a little harsh. Nevertheless, I felt that a professional Canucks team could overcome the loss of their #5 defenceman.

Come game 6, I was excited after a nice win by the Canucks for a very competitive and clean series the rest of the way, but boy was I mistaken.

It only took the Boston Bruins the first shift of the game for them to inflict their brand of poor choices and dirty hockey plays – ask Max Pacioretty and Blair Jones about some past examples – with Johnny Boychuk ramming Mason Raymond into the boards, several seconds after anybody near them had touched the puck. Instead of letting up on the kid while he was in a vulnerable position, Boychuk made a conscious decision to drive the player into the boards while he was folded in half, causing a fractured vertebrae.

There wasn’t a penalty called on the play, I wasn’t infuriated by that, the Referees need to watch the play and wouldn’t suspect something like that happening so far away from the actual puck. I was incredibly impressed by Raymond’s muster to get up and actually skate off the ice with such an injury. What I am angry about is the inconsistency on the discipline during this series.

If it was Kevin Bieksa on Patrice Bergeron, how many games would it be? How would the media paint the Canucks the bad guys of hockey? These are a couple questions I’ve had and honestly I don’t have an answer, but I might tend to lean to the side of a 4+ game suspension.

The inconsistency is incredibly disturbing and hard to deny, so I am asking you NHL, why?

Many would speculate that the NHL doesn’t want to suffer from a Canadian hockey team winning the cup. Apparently it will cost your league millions of dollars because even though we Canadians make up for a large portion of your fan base, the pure population and potential for earnings is in the United States.

I don’t think your league is that petty, a team that is 40 years old and has never won the cup is a good story to sell if you can. Also, I don’t think a league influencing the outcome of the games would benefit anybody long term.

So is there any other reason? Could it be that the league’s disciplinarian before this series started is the daddy of a player on the Boston Bruins team? I know he stepped aside for the series and we’ve got Brendan Shanahan taking over next season (here’s hoping he can be consistent!) but would you deny any involvement by him in any decisions? Would you honestly say that he has stepped aside so he could enjoy his son playing the actual game? I’d hope so.

What about the temporary man-in-charge? Is it true that he actually called Brian Burke, enemy and former General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks, on disciplinary advice? Sure, you don’t ask straight out “what would you do with Aaron Rome?” but come on, of all the people to ask, Brian Burke gets a call? The former disciplinarian -albeit, from over a decade ago- I’m sure was professional and impartial with his advice.

So NHL, I ask you, why so inconsistent? Why would a split second in-the-spirit-of-the-game hit that the disciplinarian even said “if it was half a second earlier we wouldn’t be having this discussion” be a four-game suspension, but Boychuks away-from-the-play obvious intent to injure not be?

I want to understand the inconsistency in these calls. If you want to send a message NHL, you are sending a poor one and this, if it continues to happen, could cost you many fans who love this sport.

Tries to pick a fight with a Swede? Isn’t man enough to call out Bieksa or Kesler. Marchand is a pu$$y!!! The guy looks like a flipping human Magpie. Let’s start a poll: who’s he look more like Heckle or Jeckle?
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To Kevin the letter writer – Have you ever played the game? Seriously you think the only thing wrong with the Rome hit was that it was late. Did you miss the part where he lifted off his feet and rammed his shoulder through Horton’s head from the blindside. I do agree with you that 4 games was steep. He probably should have gotten 2. Alos Thornton should have been playing from game 1. It just took Claude two games to figure it out. The Stanley cup playoffs have been all out physical war for the 50 years I’ve been watching hockey. The problem with the Boychuck hit was the awkward position Raymond was in. Players are rubbed out along the boards all the time. It’s part of the game. How many times this series has Bieksa rubbed Recchi out? It was just an unfortunate by product of a physical sport.

As for bcool7 the point is where were the rest of the tough guy canooks when Marchand was hitted Daniella in the face. If a canook had done that to Krejci I can garuantee that he would have had company very quickly. Teams have each others backs. Like I said the canooks have no balls.

To Kevin the whining Canadian douche bag,

First of all, I never once insulted you in my reply, I made some valid points all of which you ignored. You have to be real tough trying to insult someone on the internet that you know nothing about. All of my comments on here are valid and display a better knowledge of the game than yourself. Plagiarizing someone else’s letter and posting it on a website without their permission makes you look even dumber. At least I have original comments to post.

On top of that what are you talking about, the stuff you posted in reply makes literally no sense at all.

The Boychuk hit was reviewed because the NHL reviews all hits than end up in injuries. The NHL league office ruled that the hit was legal and a normal part of the game. Boychuk did not know Raymond was hurt and was just finishing his check. To compare it to the Rome hit is moronic at best, let’s be honest here.

Just because you are Canadian does not mean you know more about the game than Americans. I have been playing ice hockey my whole life and I feel I know as much about the game as any Canadian. Don’t make judgements about people you clearly know nothing about, you just end up sounding like an arrogant dick.

At least people here in Boston can admit that Marchand plays a little cheap and on the edge. Marchand will at least stand up for himself just like everyone else on the Bruins team. I guarantee you that if Marchand rabbit punched any member of the Bruins like he did to Sedin, the Bruins player would have punched him back. Your Sedin sisters, Maxime Lapierre, and Burrows are nothing but a bunch of whiny little punks that will not fight to save their own dignity. If you are seeing something else please enlighten us. All I have seen is the Sedin’s cower and cry to the refs, Burrows bite someone and try to fight a goalie but shy away from every player that wants to fight him, and Maxime Lapierre has been doing his best to get a spot on Manchester United by diving and crying every time someone gets near him.

Kevin, you are wrong, don’t lob insults over the internet just because you’re points are not valid and you have no real argument.

Go Bruins!!

You have clearly proven my point airhead.

Hey Deano, why is when your Bruin players gets hit like Horton you guys scream bloodly murder but when your guys hits another player and breaks his neck like Pacioretty or like Raymond who broke his back, to you that’s part of the game. Your an idiot Deano and I stand by my previous comments and you continue to prove through your ramblings that I am a good judge of character, if you take them as insults maybe there is a good reason for that. Say what you want but to claim you know the game because you played it does not make you an expert, it makes you sound even more stupid by your choice of wording, as someone who has played the game as you claim you would not use the words “panties” in talking about the Sedins, who by the way are not canadian or american just Hart tropy winners.

The reason I am not crying bloody murder on either the Chara hit or the Boychuk hit is the following, which I have stated countless times and you continue to ignore the differences but here it is again:

The Chara hit in my opinion was not a penalty, it was unfortunate. Chara was finishing the play and not allowing Pacioretty dump the puck and skate by him. Chara was doing what every defenseman is taught to do on that play. When the forward dumps the puck by you and tries to skate around to the outside, every coach I have ever met has always taught me to finish off the player into the boards. I am not the only person that thinks this way because the league ruled in favor of my opinion stating that it was unfortunate but it was a normal hockey play and not suspend able.

Secondly, the Boychuk hit was not a penalty. It was not called on the ice and it was not given a suspension or even a fine after it was later reviewed. If anything it was another unfortunate situation in which Raymond and Boychuk collided awkwardly leading to an injury and then Boychuk finished Raymond off with a LEGAL hit.

Neither of those plays deserved a penalty nor a suspension. To me the Rome hit is a different class of hit and the NHL league office agrees with me, not you. So does a majority of players including Bobby Orr and Ray Bourque, who both came out on record strongly against the Rome hit but both also defended the Chara incident when it happened. But I am guessing Kevin thinks he is more intelligent than Bobby Orr and Ray Bourque Right? I would see what some ex great Canucks are saying, but there are none.

Finally, I am not going to go over the Rome hit again. However, it was a penalty ten years ago or thirty years ago. It was not ruled under the new rule 48.1 regarding head shots. The suspension was given to Rome because it was a major penalty for interference and it was determined to be INTENT to INJURE because the hit was late, it was high, and it caused a major brain injury to Nathan Horton. If you think the Rome hit is comparable to the Chara hit then you are wrong.

When it happened and whenever a hit like the Rome hit takes place. Where there was a real intent to injure, it is my opinion that the offending player should be suspended for the amount of time the player he hit is unable to play. This means Matt Cooke would not be playing for as long as Savard is out, it means Bertuzzi would never be allowed to play again after what he did to Steve Moore, it means that Rome is sitting out because the guy he cheap shotted is also out.

The NHL wanted to transition to the faster style of play, which I enjoy. But removing the two line pass rule has opened up the game to more of these head shots. Also with the fight instigator rule, the NHL players can no longer police the game themselves and get retaliation for these types of hits. Therefore the only way to get these hits out of the game is to enforce a strict code of conduct on these cheap head shot hits and make the punishments more effective to ensure players like Matt Cooke are not just running wild out there and doing whatever they want with no repercussions.

Yes, the Sedin’s have talent, and they are great regular season player’s, but they have no balls. They dive and whine to the officials about physical play in the stanley cup playoffs. I am glad they are not on the Bruins team, I prefer hockey players like Bergeron and Lucic, who play a better all around game and bring other skills than passing, skating and shooting to the game. They are great in Fantasy hockey but when the going gets tough the Sedin’s have disappeared.

The Sedin’s have been exposed as being little prima donnas in this series and I am sorry if you don’t like it, but it is fact. I mean Daniel Sedin has at least three inches on Marchand and he just stood there letting Marchand (a rookie) punch him like a little girl, hence the panties reference. I am not the only ex player to call them girls either, in case you missed it Mike Milbury referred to them as “Thelma and Louise”. No one on the Bruins would let Marchand do that to them and not retaliate, just shows what wimps the Sedin’s are compared to the other players on the ice.

This is game 7, the Refs are going to swallow their whistles and if the Sedin’s want the Bruins players to leave them alone then they will have to stand up for themselves.

Boychuk’s hit on Raymond was far from innocent – every Boston player hits the ice with the “intent to injure” everytime they play. But when one of their own gets hurt, it’s a boo fest in Boston – Horton will be in Vancouver tonight, hope he can keep his head up long enough to see the 3rd period – keep in mind – Raymond will be lying in a Boston hospital –
I hope Boston goes down tonight – just like the refs did on Colin Campbell – yes indeed they will swallow their whistles tonight – I heard that they’re good at swallowing.

This is for everybody except Deano as I am overly tired of reading his idiotic ramblings. My point broken back – Raymond out until at least November, Pacioretty – broken neck out for the season, Rome gets 4 games for his open ice hit and now romour has it Horton might be in the line-up for tonights 7th game. I am truly greatfull Horton can play so quickly after being hurt so bad, but come on fellows if you can say that this is fair then you must be being paid by the nitwits who run the NHL. May the best team win tonight and nobody leaves in a body-bag.

Frist of all Max the Hab was just shit bad luck for the boy , unless you are saying Chara made sure he hit the opening on purpose. That would be impressive considering the speed at which the game is played. The Boychuk hit was not dirty because it was continuation of the play . The Rome hit was not a blind side hit but he did leave his feet and did target the head which is intent to injure.All you Canadians seem to forget your boy Burrows playing Hanibal the canibal . As far as Brad punching that red headed wus who plays for you he is shorter and weighs less than Danielle so who is the pussy. By the way are the Canucks a hockey team or olympic diving team . Just saying. Go B’s

All this trash talk by the Canucks and who came out the victors?? GO B’s!!!