“Marchand was going to hit 1000 points with the Bruins. Only 24 points away,” lamented a Bruins fan. The netizen had every reason to feel upset. Brad Marchand’s last-minute trade stunned the NHL universe. What’s worse? It was an unceremonious end to 16 years of captaincy that saw Marchand lead the Boston Bruins in a whopping 1090 NHL games.
Naturally, donning a different jersey, that too of their division rivals, for the first time must have felt different. That’s exactly what reporters thought when asked the NHL veteran to describe how it felt skating on the ice as a Panther. “It was odd when I stepped on the ice. That was the first time I kind of… It kind of hit me,” Marchand said about his Florida Panthers debut.
Being cheered by the fan base that had rooted against him for over one and a half decades almost felt alien. “Going out there and being cheered by Panthers fans was a lot different,” Brad Marchand told reporters in the locker room after the game.
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