Boston is getting to watch a storybook ending to a Hall of Famer’s career
I feel like it’s really flying under the radar unfortunately the Brad marshan played his 1,000th game right yeah so uh and Nick I know we have what it sound uh we have what it sounded like on nessen when everybody kind of stopped down they they had a great video they played and
Everything to and then this is everybody sort of giving marshy his flowers Maran the captain acknowledging the crowd they rise on Mass [Applause] Kevin and Lynn Maran mom and dad were there as well it was it was something yeah they um they’re also going to honor him on
Monday on the 19th I think they during that President’s Day game that early game it’s like 1 or two o’clock good yeah so it is it is um want to play a quick game real quick let me quiz you real quick because you know I love to do
This because you brought this up and I was thinking about how impressive this is that he was able to hit this 1,000 or more game Mark for the franchise and um I don’t know if you know that this but there are eight players on this uh in the Bruins franchise that have have
1,000 or more games um can you name them ah let’s see that these should be pretty obvious there may be one guy that you won’t get now these are I’ll say there’s eight of them and not including Marshon right okay so we got Chara yep KY cuz that just happened didn’t it yep
Uh berson obviously yep well Ray bour yep oo I got to go old time hockey here there’s two that Johnny Buck yep yep there’s two you’re missing uh would one one is very you know this guy because he’s uh management for the Bruins now I was
Going to say it was either Bob or Don Sweeny I’ll give you credit and the last guy that I don’t think there’s any way you’re going to get let me let me take a stab I don’t even know who this guy is oh God Gary
Chers was uh no no no so that means it’s an older player I don’t know Wayne Cashman yes wait who gave that to you no one did yes do you think do you think Nick knew I thought Nick whis in your ear cuz I’m not there or maybe it was a
Graphic on TV last night no you got them yeah you got them all good job look at you again undefeated again I will I’m also done the research on this as well and uh it looks like this year right so you have Ryan O’Reilly Cal Kyle ooso Cal Clutterbuck who I Clutterbuck was
Drafted right behind marshand in the third round of that 06 I thought you made that name up I didn’t no Cal he played for the wild for a while yeah no Cal cutterbuck has uh been around forever Victor Hedman Matt du Shane Mark Andre flurry larell Alex petrangelo we approaching only
400 players ever who have made it in the NHL long enough to go over 1,00 games played and the reason that I bring up a guy like Clutterbuck and Marian together is drafted right C was right behind marshan and I I heard this number yesterday and I I’m mad that I didn’t
Write it down or try to research it myself it is like a minuscule amount of people who have been drafted outside like the first or second rounds I do believe in the hockey draft who have made it to a thousand games like the stats and the numbers really work out
That if you’re like a third rounder if you play six or 700 games you’ve had a hell of a career you get to a thousand especially out of that round and I’m not saying that it’s you know Mr Irrelevant or anything like that but there definitely is an extra level of
Achievement and especially when you think about how Martian came up right he was in the AHL then he was on the fourth line then he worked his way up to playing now we can’t think of Brad Marian other than the guy being at the wing of Patrice pers on when in reality
When he first came up he was a knucklehead pain ass absolutely yeah uh great defender great on the penalty kill and if you look at his just um when it you know listen he’s even they’re talking about Hall of Fame with this guy and if you look at his numbers oh he’s a
Lock yo yeah well just this postseason if you just go from 2010 to the 2010 11 season um like basically like when he was his full campaign when he he was starting all the time right not in and out not playing you know 20 games here
Or there or in the NHL AHL like his goals uh fourth his assist 15th um um and this is just the regular season when you go to his his postseason that’s in the same season that’s where the guy stands out yeah goals tied for second assist fourth points second I
Mean 128 points rank second since 2010 left season so that alone will get him in oh definitely and looking at a guy like Cal Clutterbuck right heading into this year he had a total of 274 points right so just to put into perspective you know Mary’s pushing a
Thousand I think it is Nick he’s in what 930 912 912 so Mary will hit a th000 points too but it just goes to show that there are different kinds of guys out of different rounds who can end up sort of really making it in the league and what
A difference between those two and that’s not to denigrate cutterbuck don’t get me wrong it just goes to show how unbelievable a story that Brad Maran really is and we’re going to end up being very thankful that hopefully this guy is another one of those like berson
Where you begin a bruin and you finish a bruin there still is something romantic in the world of hockey to that that I know that a lot of Bruins fans really struggled with when Ray bour ultimately got traded to Colorado right it was the
Well he’s been so good for us we got to go let him go try to win one because we’re never going to here and that’s where berson and Martian and people like that kind of changed this organization and forced them to have to get with it
So to speak a little bit and they did and Marie’s been great and he’s been a good Captain after the game he was saying all the right stuff like the train transformation from’ 05 marshy to 2024 Mary it gets me excited on Friday at 11:25 to talk to Andrew raycroft about
It because to hear it through a guy who has seen people come into the league as wild men and then ultimately morph into a functioning professional to me that’s Martian
Gresha and Fauria reflect on the the legacy and character arch of Brad Marchand. The Bruins Captain celebrated his 1,000th game last night which got the guys discussing the Stanley Cup Champ’s impact on the team and what he’ll eventually leave behind
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