ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - Brendan Gallagher said he was only joking. He wasn't actually going to "jump" Brad Marchand when he wasn't looking — something he promised to do if a Team Canada Twitter campaign aimed at getting Connor McDavid on the cover of NHL 17 received 10,000 re-tweets. But he also didn't want to break his word.
"He should keep one eye open," Gallagher told TSN.
By Thursday morning, more than 11,680 people had re-tweeted Marchand's promise. Most of them were probably Montreal Canadiens fans, although with Marchand the hate is not exactly limited to one fan base or one team.