The NHL’s vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell spoke to both the Boston Bruins general manager Don Sweeney and Brad Marchand today, warning the veteran forward that his actions of licking players is unacceptable and another incident like that will result in supplementary discipline, according to the NHL.
Marchand, who has been accused for licking a player for the second time in the Stanley Cup playoffs this year, was seen checking Tampa Bay’s Ryan Callahan into the boards and when Callahan shoved back, Marchand responded by licking him. He was accused of the same thing in the first round of the playoffs during Game 1 by the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Leo Komarov. Marchand was not penalized for either incident, but the league is stepping in now.
According to Rule 75.4 (iii), “Any player who persists in any course of conduct designed to incite an opponent into incurring a penalty,” which means the league could start handing out 10-minute misconduct penalties immediately for any similar actions, according to TSN’s Frank Seravalli.
“There’s absolutely no place in this game for that,” Tampa Bay head coach Jon Cooper said (via Joe Smith). “I don’t understand it.”
Even Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said Marchand needs to stop.
“Brad has to stop licking. That’s the end of the story,” said Cassidy (via Chris Johnston).
What a f*#%ing joke, he can lick someone, which is no different from splitting, and HE ONLY GETS A WARNING?!?! WTF…. I wonder what would happened if I got in an argument with someone at my workplace and licked them …. most likely sexual harassment.. hmm but the guy who gets anyway with murder, gets a warning , what a joke
Need some cheese to go with that ?
Marchand had just been hit in the face multiple times…is that like your workplace? Settle down…
Hitting people is within the rules of hockey… I didn’t think licking was
Getting away with murder? Wow comparing licking to murder you my friend have some issues.
Lmao man, it’s a figure of speech, are you familiar with expressions? You guys really need to come up with better chirps if you’re gonna stand up for this embarrassment
Also comparing it to all the other bs marchand gets away with and I’m really not sure how anyone thinks this is okay
In 2018 we’re warning players that they need to stop licking each other. Wtf happened to hockey? If this was 20-years ago, Marchand would have had his teeth knocked out by Domi or Brashear…
Honestly, get rid of the instigator rule and this shit won’t happen.
Cute
Kinda just wanna see Boston go to the Conference finals so Tom Wilson can knock the shit out of him.