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Video- Brad Marchand Not Happy With Goal Celebration
by Paul on 10/04/18 at 07:47 AM ET
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via Matt Porter of the Boston Globe,
His lower lip swollen, an inch-long cut dotting his cheek, and with little interest in dwelling on the matter, Brad Marchand said he was sticking up for his teammates when he mugged Capitals center Lars Eller late in Wednesday night’s a season-opening rout.
“The celebration was unnecessary,” said Marchand, who was ejected at 13:54 of the third. “He took an angle in front of our bench and celebrated in a 7-0 game.”...
It earned the oft-disciplined left wing 17 penalty minutes for instigating, fighting, and a misconduct.
“That’s good,” coach Bruce Cassidy said. “He’s a proud guy. I think Eller was celebrating a little on a 7-0 goal. That’s his prerogative. Marshy let him know that’s not acceptable.”
Below watch the goal and Marchand fighting Eller.
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Brad Marchand May Be The Most Hated Star In Hockey
by Paul on 10/01/18 at 07:07 AM ET
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from Matt Porter of the Boston Globe,
If they hopped in a time machine and met in a seven-game playoff series, Brad Marchand would make Cam Neely’s blood boil.
“In that era,” Neely said, “I would get away with punching him in the face a few times.
“In this era, I don’t know. I might be in the penalty box. But I would take him with me.”
Their interactions in real life are not combative, but candid and communicative. The Bruins team president with the Hall of Fame résumé is an understanding mentor to his star left winger.
Marchand does not enjoy such support around the league.
They loathe him in Vancouver, where he speedbagged a Sedin and lifted the Stanley Cup. They can’t stand him in Toronto, where he has broken playoff-hungry hearts. They hated him in Tampa long before Ryan Callahan wiped slobber from his face.
As of two weeks ago, they even booed him in China.
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Brad Marchand Is Your Tour Guide In China
by Paul on 09/18/18 at 11:33 AM ET
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from Brad Marchand at NHL.com,
BEIJING -- Yesterday was fun.
After our practice was pushed back from Monday morning to Monday afternoon, we went to the Silk Market. It was cool to be out in the market, really cool to be out there, kind of out in Chinese everyday life and have an opportunity to do a little bit of shopping. It was a lot of fun. The whole team was there; coaches, trainers and everyone.
We all have a little bit of down time, where some guys want to rest. There have been some long days too. Some guys wanted to go there and shop, but there's other opportunities where we do want to all get together, and that's where we build relationships and bond on the road.
But most of us did go to the Silk Market, and it was a fun experience. I haven't been anywhere like it. Any time you go to foreign countries there's always things that are kind of like that, to some extent, but it's normally a lot smaller. It was actually a little overwhelming, the different things that were in there.
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Logistic Issues For The Boston Bruins In China
by Paul on 09/18/18 at 07:32 AM ET
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from Matt Porter of the Boston Globe,
BEIJING — The preseason is about settling into a rhythm in preparation for a fast-approaching opening night, but that has been a losing proposition for the split-squad Bruins. And we’re not just talking about the jet lag.
Monday the Bruins were scheduled to be at AZ Ice Sports Club at 11 a.m. Their practice gear was neatly laid out in their locker room. However, there were no jerseys or sticks, no skate sharpener, and no medical equipment — items necessary to begin their workday.
Because of bureaucratic and logistical issues, trucks carrying heavy equipment did not arrive until 3:15, a delay of more than five hours. Coach Bruce Cassidy didn’t blow the whistle until after 4 p.m., when the bulky stuff had made a road trip of more than 1,300 miles — from Shenzhen to Beijing, through border checks at four provinces — that took from Saturday night, all of Sunday, and most of Monday to complete.
The Bruins couldn’t just borrow someone else’s stuff. The NHL expected a few bumps on this journey, but this has been constant turbulence.
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The Boston Bruins In China
by Paul on 09/16/18 at 07:15 PM ET
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from Fluto Shinzawa of The Athletic,
“Holy shit,” said David Pastrnak.
Pastrnak, Jake DeBrusk, and video coach J.P. Buckley had been standing atop one of the watchtowers of the Great Wall’s Mutianyu section, accessible only because of boosts from Brandon Carlo and Kevan Miller. Pastrnak’s utterance came when he turned around from his perch, identified how high he was above a perilous drop, and felt the rush of danger.
This, mind you, coming from a 22-year-old adrenaline junkie whose regular work hazards include being chased by 220-pound monsters with sticks, elbows, and other assorted appendages meant to break bones.
A Czech Republic citizen working for a United States employer preparing to play a Canadian opponent in China captured Sunday’s moment in a very American way. Of all the adjectives visitors like the Bruins and Flames could use to describe the Great Wall, Pastrnak’s selection was as accurate as any.
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Kicking Off The China Games
by Paul on 09/15/18 at 07:02 AM ET
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from Amalie Benjamin of NHL.com,
SHENZHEN, China -- 7The teenager stood, half his body suspended over the railing. He waved his arm, over and over, calling for attention.
"Brad Marchand!" he yelled. "Brad Marchand!"
In front of him, the Boston Bruins and Calgary Flames had just taken the ice for warmups at Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, their usual routine transformed for their first preseason game of the 2018-2019 season. Instead of an arena in North America, the Bruins and Flames were halfway around the world, 30 minutes away from the start of the first game of the 2018 O.R.G. NHL China Games, which the Bruins would win in a shootout, 4-3.
The kid wore a Bruins jersey with a No. 15, Milt Schmidt's retired number. Next to him stood a man in a newly minted John Tavares Toronto Maple Leafs sweater, and nearby a neon P.K. Subban Nashville Predators edition. A Grant Fuhr Edmonton Oilers jersey could be seen a few sections over, and the concourse revealed Daniel Alfredsson and Ken Dryden and Milan Lucic and Joffrey Lupul.
These were the people who already knew, and loved, the game.
But there were others, the ones with no history and no allegiances, with no sense of hockey's past that the NHL wants to be part of its future. For them, there came an announcement after the two teams left the ice: They would be explaining the rules of hockey to the assembled crowd.
Check out the game highlights below (not normal for KK to post from a preseason game, but since it is China....)
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Chinese Businessman Idolized Bobby Orr
by Paul on 09/14/18 at 10:15 AM ET
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from Amalie Benjamin of NHL.com,
Zhou Yunjie points to his eyes. He explains, in Chinese, that he nearly cried when he met his idol almost two years ago, on a night in Boston that was the culmination of a childhood dream.
Bobby Orr was in Boston, set to drop the ceremonial puck alongside Milt Schmidt. Later, in a suite, Zhou met the man that had introduced him to hockey.
It was emotional then. It feels almost emotional now.
"It was quite exciting," Zhou said, through a translator. "I almost burst into tears. Because Bobby Orr was my idol since [I was a] child."
Zhou has become a towering figure in the bid to introduce hockey to China, using his O.R.G. Packaging to bring the NHL to his home country. That includes this week when the Bruins and Calgary Flames play two preseason games in China, the 2018 O.R.G. NHL China Games, with the first at Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen on Saturday (2:30 a.m. ET; NHLN, SN) and the second at Cadillac Arena in Beijing on Wednesday (7:30 a.m. ET; NBCSN, SN).
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Training Camps Have Changed
by Paul on 09/14/18 at 07:06 AM ET
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from Joe McDonals of The Athletic,
NHL training camps have drastically changed over the years.
When he reported for training camp, Hall of Fame goalie and one-time Bruin Rogie Vachon would run a couple of miles and then sit in the locker room and enjoy a cigar and beer. He wasn’t the only player from his era — he retired after the 1982 season — to swear by this type of regimen....
Imagine current goalie Tuukka Rask smoking and drinking after the performance testing?
“Maybe not the cigar, but maybe having a beer,” teammate Torey Krug said with a laugh. “It’s a different time. You hear war stories about the guys showing up in training camp just to get in shape and that’s not the way it goes anymore.”
When today’s players return to their respective teams in late August and early September, they’re already in outstanding physical shape after an offseason of relentless workouts on and off the ice. As a result, the actual training camp portion of the preseason is much shorter than it once was, and exhibition games begin almost immediately. Teams now have nutritionists on staff, as well as skating and skill coaches.
Puke buckets, a onetime staple, are no longer needed on the ice.
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Boston Bruins/New York Rangers Trade
by Paul on 09/11/18 at 09:30 AM ET
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added 10:35am, NYR release is below.
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Rick Middleton Tuned His Game Playing Street Hockey
by Paul on 09/08/18 at 02:08 PM ET
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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
Pursuing the hockey dream, and its endless stream of promises and $5 trophies, is a pricey proposition. Parents of young puck chasers can go broke shelling out for sticks, skates, travel teams, and power-skating lessons, tossed headlong into the financial abyss with the hope that junior at least comes out of it with a free ride to a Division 1 college program.
For the vast percentage of kids, the D1 scholarship never materializes, after an investment of maybe a dozen years and easily $50,000 — possibly more, when adding up all the gas money, Motel 6’s, the beer, the pizza, and that crappy caffeine concoction that pours steaming hot out of arena vending machines, tapped directly from a Jiffy Lube recycling tank.
Rick Middleton, one of the most talented players ever to pull on a Bruins sweater, is convinced street hockey helped make his dream a reality. Not only street hockey, of course, because it is never just one thing. Talent and will and commitment have many origins.
For Middleton, though, a key ingredient was growing up at 80 Gilroy Drive in Scarborough, Ontario, just a few miles northeast of downtown Toronto. The Maple Leafs were the hottest team in Canada, with four Stanley Cup title in the 1960s. Middleton was an impressionable 13-year-old, six years before his draft year of 1973, when his hometown heroes clinched the last (and still most recent) of those four titles.
continued plus more hockey topics of interest...
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