Bruins Re-Sign Brad Marchand

Bruins Finally Re-Sign Stanley Cup Hero, Brad Marchand
Official Bruins Press Release

BOSTON, MA – Boston Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced today that the club has signed forward Brad Marchand to a two-year contract. Per club policy, financial terms of the deal will not be disclosed. Chiarelli and Marchand will hold a conference call today at 4:45 p.m. ET to discuss the signing. In his first full year in Boston, the 23-year-old rookie played in 77 games last season and notched 21-20=41 totals and 51 penalty minutes. He tied for third in the NHL with five shorthanded goals and finished the regular season at a +25, the second highest plus/minus rating among rookies (second to teammate Adam McQuaid’s +30). On April 4, 2010, Marchand won the “7th Player Award,” which is an annual award presented to the Bruin who went above and beyond the call of duty and exceed the expectations of Bruins fans during the regular season. The 7th Player Award is voted on by Bruins fans. In the 2010-11 postseason, the 5’9, 183-pound native of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia ranked second overall in playoff goal scoring (and 1st among rookies) with 11 goals in 25 games. He also added eight assists in the playoffs to go along with a rookie-best +12 rating. Marchand scored two goals in the Stanley Cup clinching victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 on June 15, 20011. Marchand has played a total of 97 regular season games with Boston, tallying 21-21=42 career NHL totals. He skated in a total of 113 games with the Providence Bruins (American Hockey League) from 2008-2010 and recorded 31-60=91 totals. The Bruins selected Marchand in the third round (71st overall) in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.

PattyB Thoughts:
Brad Marchand is one of my favorite players in the NHL, so its no surprise that I think this is great news for the Bruins. Marchand was a hero throughout the Bruins impressive Stanley Cup winning playoff run, which made it very difficult for Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli to get him to agree to a reasonable deal. Despite the intense "back and forth" negotiations, they were able to settle on a reasonable contract for both sides. The deal will keep Marchand in the black and gold for the next two seasons and at a fair salary of $2.5 million per year. At twenty-three years of age, he is still improving and I am sure that the playoff experience he had last year will be extremely helpful to his future. I personally think that this upcoming season he will build on his forty-one regular season points of last year and get somewhere around sixty. That offensive talent mixed with his gritty, hard-nosed style of play and good defensive game, makes him an extremely versatile, and useful player and whats so surprising about that, is he has only played one full NHL season. This kid will be worth every cent of that $2.5 million and I expect him to continue blossoming into a talented agitator. 


CONTRACT TERMS:

LENGTH: 2 YEAR(S)     VALUE: $5,000,000     TYPE: STANDARD     EXPIRY STATUS: RFA
SEASON	AHL SALARY	NHL SALARY	P. BONUSES	S. BONUS	CAP HIT
2011-12	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$0	—	$2,500,000
2012-13	$3,000,000	$3,000,000	$0	—	$2,500,000

CAREER STATISTICS:

Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	TP	PIM		Postseason	GP	G	A	TP	PIM
2004-2005	Moncton Wildcats	QMJHL	61	9	20	29	52	|	Playoffs	11	1	0	1	7
	Canada Atlantic U17	WHC-17	6	5	6	11	10	|
2005-2006	Moncton Wildcats	QMJHL	68	29	37	66	83	|	Playoffs	20	5	14	19	34
	Moncton Wildcats	M-Cup	5	2	2	4	2	|
2006-2007	Val-d'Or Foreurs	QMJHL	57	33	47	80	108	|	Playoffs	20	16	24	40	36
	Canada U20	WJC-20	6	2	0	2	2	|
2007-2008	Val-d'Or Foreurs	QMJHL	33	21	23	44	36	|
	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL	26	10	19	29	40	|	Playoffs	14	3	16	19	18
	Canada U20	WJC-20	7	4	2	6	4	|
2008-2009	Providence Bruins	AHL	79	18	41	59	67	|	Playoffs	16	7	8	15	26
2009-2010	Providence Bruins	AHL	34	13	19	32	51	|
	Boston Bruins	NHL	20	0	1	1	20	|
2010-2011	Boston Bruins	NHL	77	21	20	41	51	|	Playoffs	25	11	8	19	40
2011-2012	Boston Bruins	NHL	-	-	-	-	-	|