Marchy's homecoming! Thoughts on the tribute to Marchand? Coco: "I'm so happy with the response that the entire Garden gave him" Favorite Marchy memory?
00:00To see Brad Marchand bawling his eyes out with a video tribute last night at the Boston Garden.
00:06Can I just say, I'm so happy they did it, and I'm so happy with the response that the entire Garden gave him.
00:13Like, that place was going nuts for him.
00:15The amount of Bruins fans that had signs for him, the emotion that was on the ice.
00:20I mean, my hormones are out of whack.
00:22I was a puddle watching that.
00:25I watched it probably four times.
00:27Just him crying.
00:28You did?
00:28Yes, yes.
00:30Because he loves it here.
00:32He clearly loved it here.
00:34He clearly would.
00:35I mean, I don't know that he'd trade winning the cup last year and the opportunity to win it again this year to be back here.
00:44But he clearly.
00:45And it's probably also an end of.
00:47He's getting to the end of his career, although they signed a six-year deal with him or whatever.
00:52But he probably is sentimental on that, too.
00:56Like, he grew up here.
00:57They didn't have to get rid of him.
00:59That's the thing.
01:00Like, they just.
01:01They didn't want to give him the.
01:02They didn't want to give him six years.
01:03Well, that's dumb.
01:04He wanted long-term.
01:06And they're in a different space of, like, their organizational growth than where he is in his career.
01:12Like, he needs to be playing for Stanley Cups in the twilight of his career.
01:17And the Bruins, unfortunately, are just not in a position to do that.
01:19But if they gave him the money, I don't think he would have cared about the playing for a Stanley Cup.
01:24I think he loved it here more than that.
01:26Yeah.
01:26You think he would have left if the Bruins gave him the same money that the Panthers earned?
01:32So you're saying, I think maybe a better way to say it is because the Bruins said, oh, we want to talk to him after the season.
01:39So he just wins the Stanley Cup.
01:40He's now a free agent.
01:42And the Bruins and Florida both offer him the same length.
01:45Where do you think he goes?
01:47I think you would have stayed down there.
01:48No.
01:49I agree.
01:49I think that the moment.
01:51Did you not watch the Bruins game last night?
01:53I did.
01:53They stink.
01:54Like, he might win yet another Cup.
01:55He might double the amount of Cups he had with the Bruins in two years with the Panthers.
01:59Yeah, no, I get it.
02:00I just, watching him, there is a special connection between he and here.
02:04Does he want to be six years on a team that just is?
02:07Well, like, I thought Tom Brady had a special connection with this city, too.
02:09But, like, eventually guys just need to move on for the growth of their careers.
02:13Well, they also wouldn't pay Tom Brady.
02:14I'm saying if.
02:15And they wouldn't pay Brad Marchand.
02:16But that wasn't my question.
02:18My question was if Boston and Florida gave him the same amount, where would he go?
02:21Is the sentimental value of being in the place you were with your whole career more important than competing for championships is kind of what you're asking.
02:30And I don't know.
02:31I think, you know, you could see he was definitely, he was definitely emotional.
02:35But the one thing that they were talking about throughout the game, the love or the re-energizing of him playing in Florida, playing for a Stanley Cup.
02:46I think maybe that those extra two years gives him a little bit more juice than if you're playing for a Bruins team where you're playing maybe to be an eighth seed.
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