Brad Marchand of the Bruins chalked up his 1,000th game for the team on Tuesday night, as Your Survival Guy had previewed earlier that day. In The Boston Globe, Kevin Paul DuPont describes Marchand’s career in Boston, writing:
Brad Marchand’s Tuesday night found him lined up at his customary spot on left wing, awaiting puck drop at the Garden, fussing and fidgeting and looking to gain an inch, the slightest territorial edge, as he bodied up against Nicholas Paul, the Lightning’s 6-foot-3, 229-pound right winger.
They are the kind of matchups the 5-foot-9 winger has faced for 15 years, one night after the other. Marchand forever the David on skates, zipping his way around an endless string of Goliaths. Some of them good, some of them bad, virtually all of them with games not nearly as big as his.
On the night Marchand played his milestone 1,000th NHL game, only fitting that it would start with the other team’s biggest forward trying to get in his way. But, hey, obstacles. For Marchand, now 35, just another night at work, a night in which he wrote his name into the league record book as the 387th player to reach 1,000 games.
“The way I always have worked is,” Marchand said when it was over, “set a goal that seems unattainable… and once it became in sight, set bigger goals.”
On his night of nights, one he sized up over the weekend as “just a bump in the road,” Marchand logged a bountiful 23:30 in ice time, more than 10 minutes of that on special teams, and he picked up two assists. The two helpers left him with a career production line of 397-515–912. He also joined a distinct group of only seven other Bruins, including his close buddy Patrice Bergeron, to reach the 1,000 mark in a Spoked B sweater.
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