Kind of a prick if you’re his opponent.
These are all things we’re all more than aware of by now in Brad Marchand’s 9th season as a Bruin. And since his elevation to first liner, he’s been business as usual.
Which is to say, a team-leading 85 point season in which he could only get 68 games in thanks to injury or...well...we’ll get to the other thing.
In other words, he was a force. And a very welcome force he was. For goalies across the NHL, there were few things that inspired dread than Marchand on a breakaway, because his casual ability to outwait, outskill, outspeed, and out-everything the defense on the way to a goal is only matched by some of the best the game has to offer.