Latest / Bleacher Report / Brad Marchand Joins NHL on TNT Postgame After Panthers Eliminate Maple Leafs in Game 7

Transcript

Brad Marchand Joins NHL on TNT Postgame After Panthers Eliminate Maple Leafs in Game 7 · Bleacher Report

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: If we haven't been tortured enough, I think I'm gonna.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: Get torture might be right.
• 0:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna bring in right now the first player
• 0:06
  Speaker 3: in NHL history to defeat one team five times in
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: winner take all scenarios. That's another jazz nugget, even though
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: you fired him the last time we were on air
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: with you. Uh, Marchie, congratulations, fantastic game. Did you want
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: to I did?
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: I wan.
• 0:23
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna jump in here, quickly jump Marshie.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Heck of a game.
• 0:27
  Speaker 4: Usually do you most of your talking on the ice,
• 0:29
  Speaker 4: at least did tonight. I'm gonna give you the opportunity
• 0:31
  Speaker 4: here to give our boy Busy a little piece of.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Your mind a little bit. What's what's your thoughts? To
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: take the high road. I gotta take the high road,
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: you know it. It was a hell of a series.
• 0:43
  Speaker 5: And and uh, you know that I said it before.
• 0:46
  Speaker 5: I wasn't joking around. They're they're a different team this year.
• 0:48
  Speaker 5: They they're competing at a much different level. And and uh,
• 0:52
  Speaker 5: that was a very tough series. So yeah, I don't
• 0:55
  Speaker 5: have anything bad to say right now.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Marchie, it's been congratulations, buddy. I don't know how
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: many times you can beat the wheels off me in
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: one season, but you did it again. I just wanted
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: to go back to the start of the game, before
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: it even began, Paul Maurice in the locker room. After
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: you guys go home and you face that difficult loss,
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: what does he say in order to reset you and
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: give you the mindset going into tonight and the way
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: you guys were able to come out.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's incredible.
• 1:22
  Speaker 5: I've never seen a coach deliver a message and get
• 1:25
  Speaker 5: a team to buy in and go ahead.
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: The way that he does.
• 1:30
  Speaker 5: And I think the biggest thing is just that this
• 1:33
  Speaker 5: team's you know, they didn't just start building it this year.
• 1:36
  Speaker 5: They've been building it for multiple years. So when you
• 1:38
  Speaker 5: have a team that has bought in for that long,
• 1:41
  Speaker 5: you know, these moments you don't feel pressure in them.
• 1:43
  Speaker 5: And it didn't feel like there's any pressure. I just
• 1:45
  Speaker 5: felt like another game. And it's because we had that belief,
• 1:48
  Speaker 5: and it's because of the messaging that he continues to
• 1:51
  Speaker 5: put forward, and you know, he made some adjustments that
• 1:53
  Speaker 5: we definitely noticed that a huge impact on the game tonight.
• 1:56
  Speaker 6: I'll look at your line and your role it's army
• 1:59
  Speaker 6: by the way your line and your role coming in
• 2:01
  Speaker 6: here talking about no pressure you're down on that third line.
• 2:03
  Speaker 6: I guess you could call it. You guys had a
• 2:05
  Speaker 6: pretty good night luster Rain and Lundell and yourself big
• 2:08
  Speaker 6: time on the score sheet. What's it been like being like,
• 2:11
  Speaker 6: I guess, a depth guy for the Florida Panthers and
• 2:14
  Speaker 6: coming up so big with your line.
• 2:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. You know, I
• 2:21
  Speaker 5: think we felt instant chemistry when we got on.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: The ice together.
• 2:23
  Speaker 5: It was a bit tough because we at the end
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: of the season, we had a lot of guys that
• 2:26
  Speaker 5: were out of the lineup, so it's tough to really
• 2:28
  Speaker 5: find out who each other is gonna play with. But
• 2:32
  Speaker 5: instantly in practice we connected well and and we have
• 2:35
  Speaker 5: a lot of great communication that just seems to you know,
• 2:38
  Speaker 5: we fit well. I think we play a similar style together,
• 2:41
  Speaker 5: and when we get the opportunity around the net, we
• 2:43
  Speaker 5: can make plays. But you know, we're just trying to
• 2:45
  Speaker 5: compete hard and do our jobs on the ice. And
• 2:48
  Speaker 5: you know that that's usually where really good teams have
• 2:51
  Speaker 5: success in the playoffs is with their depth, and you know,
• 2:53
  Speaker 5: you saw with Noses line They's scort a huge goal
• 2:55
  Speaker 5: for us tonight. You know, you could feel before the
• 2:57
  Speaker 5: game with the way those guys were dialed in that
• 2:59
  Speaker 5: they were gonna have a big night, and they did.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: Marchie, it's biz.
• 3:02
  Speaker 6: I got a follow up.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: So you guys have that first period you have and
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: you dominate for the first ten minutes, Is it somebody
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: in the locker room before the first and second that
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: that steps up and says something as far as keeping
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: your foot on the gas, Because as hard as you
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: guys came in that first ten minutes, it was even
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: more relentless in that second period.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we just had the belief, uh, you know, and
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna take the high road there.
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: You gotta do a lat marsh Whenever someone throws a
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: corny joke out like that, you can do a lab
• 3:36
  Speaker 4: maybe bus.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: You answer the question speaking Marshie, I'll keep a lab.
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, so we you know, we did.
• 3:46
  Speaker 5: We just we felt like if we can continue to
• 3:48
  Speaker 5: their game and kept going that way we were, we
• 3:51
  Speaker 5: were heading down the right path and we just had
• 3:52
  Speaker 5: to sustain that same pressure, you know, and we'll end
• 3:55
  Speaker 5: up in a couple of bounces, which obviously made it nice.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: Oh listen, we appreciate you hanging in there with us.
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: Awesome, good joke and all.
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: Is this about as professional as it gets? Is this
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: like how they run things down in Florida? It's got
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: to be right.
• 4:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's awesome down here, a blast.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: So hopefully we can keep going, keep it going.
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: Thanks man, really appreciate congrats, congrats, thanks appreciate it.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: Thanks for twisting the nights there.
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: Brad.
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: Horns, did you went to town on that one?
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean hard. We don't let him use.
• 4:29
  Speaker 4: It that often, so I was kind of half listening.
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: I was texting Jazz to get a little nugget, and
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: then I had Morgan in my ear.
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: Let me know.
• 4:35
  Speaker 4: He said belief and then he said it three or
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: four more times, which.
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: Was he really laid into it on the last one. Yeah, yeah, yes,
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: he was like, I don't know if you heard it
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: the other time.
• 4:48
  Speaker 6: I think when that fell off the pre game, that
• 4:50
  Speaker 6: was a sign biz.
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when you lost.
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: The man.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Righteous. I do want to remind people at home, but
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: you compose yourself that we're going to get Florida and
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: Carolina again. We got it two years ago. Mattdew Chuck's
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: been kind of quiet lately on the score sheet. Carolina
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: does not want to see him wake up because this
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: is actually the two year anniversary of Game one of
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: that series. More overtime game. You guys, remember We're all
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: night bus Matt to get chucked, that's rights. He had
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: two more game winners in this three game winners and ten.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: Warm up the bus, fire up the jet Barata here.
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: Boys, that wasn't a long now, you're Wayne was pacing
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: around the studio long night for all of us. But
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: this was. It was an incredible performance. But I think
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: people will look back on the statue and say, like, oh, yeah,
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: sweep that series. I remember then they went to the final.
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: Carolina could won every single one of those games. They
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: were all one goal games. The first one goes four
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: overtime and goes the other way. That flips that entire series.
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: And let's not forget too, the year before this Florida
• 6:05
  Speaker 4: Panthers team was swept with the Tampee Lightning and that's
• 6:07
  Speaker 4: when they did the Hubert Ordeal. They brought in coach
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: Maurice so Biz. I'm just giving a little hope there
• 6:13
  Speaker 4: that things could change there in Toronto with a couple
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: of tweaks, a couple of different changes. But what Matthew Chuck's
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: brought this lineup and the change of identity that he's
• 6:21
  Speaker 4: brought and marsh was talking about, is taking a few
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: years to build what they have. I mean it's solid,
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: it's solid, But I can't wait to watch Carolina go
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: ahead to head because they're built kind of the same,
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: you know, for checking monsters on the pucks relentless for
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: sixty minutes. I mean, I think we're in for a
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: hell of a series.
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: But to your point, those were bigger than a few tweaks, right,
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, like you send your leading score Huberto away,
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: you bring in Matthew Kuchuk, and there have been obviously
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: pieces since then, but that was such a that was
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: a seismic move right for that organization. I think the
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: question people have in Toronto is how different is this
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: going to look at? I mean, we know that Mitch
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: Mar's unrestricted free agent, same thing with John Tavares, so
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: is is the core foard done?
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: I would imagine that Mitch doesn't end up coming back.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to quickly hop in though on that
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: Matthew could Chuck point like you said, he's a little
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: bit quiet offensively. You can go back to the middle
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: of the season where Brady could chuck. I don't think
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: he scored a goal for twelve to fifteen games, but
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: he wasn't complaining. He was still doing all the little
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: intangible work supporting his teammates, wasn't getting poop me pants.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: So as far as Matthew could chuck like, you could
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: go through the tape of these last few games or
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: even this series and see that his wallplay was great.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: He was supporting teammates well, you know at the end
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: of last game, you know, mixing it up to try
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: to get his team even more galanied. So it's not
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: always finding the score sheet where you could be relevant.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: It's all those other details to his game that makes
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: him such a good leader and so important. But you know,
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: those are maybe some of the things that they lack
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: on the Toronto side. And as far as it looking different,
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: I just feel like an uninspiring effort like that at
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: home in game five, in game seven, and the way
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: that the fans reacted as crazy as it was, I
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: don't think you should be throwing er. He's on the
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: ice during the play. That's ridiculous. It seems like people
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: were throwing beer on the ice while things were going on,
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: Like that's just obnoxious. But it's clear that the fan
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: base is not crazy about when things are, When the
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: chips are on the table and things matter most, sometimes
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: they want more. They want to see more guts, more investment,
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: and more guys laying out and embodying exactly what the
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Florida Panthers showed today. So I think that change is imminent.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Does that mean for sure? Yeah a minute, that's a
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: good word but me, but yeah, it's coming and it
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Harry Knuckles, It's yeah, it's it's gonna chum.
• 8:37
  Speaker 6: I think you were like the one constant of belief
• 8:41
  Speaker 6: that they had. You kind of kept a ship like
• 8:44
  Speaker 6: going even through tough waters. You were like, Okay, we
• 8:47
  Speaker 6: can get through this because it's a turbulent ride in
• 8:50
  Speaker 6: Leaf Nation. It always is. It's either the worst or
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: the best. The jerseys on the ice. And I'm wondering
• 8:57
  Speaker 6: too a little bit, like do other players that are
• 8:59
  Speaker 6: watching this and see what these players go through? And
• 9:01
  Speaker 6: you know Marner and Matthews and yes, there's a ton
• 9:03
  Speaker 6: of pressure and it's different beasts when you play in Toronto,
• 9:06
  Speaker 6: and then you see that from fans at the end
• 9:08
  Speaker 6: with like it's just such an up and down roller
• 9:11
  Speaker 6: coaster being a Toronto maple leaf and people living and
• 9:14
  Speaker 6: dying with it that it's like a totally different monster
• 9:17
  Speaker 6: than than most fan base.
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and fans talk about nineteen sixty seven. We look
• 9:20
  Speaker 4: at this core and you go back to when I
• 9:23
  Speaker 4: was in the league. Stevie Eisman won his first Cup
• 9:25
  Speaker 4: fourteenth year in the league. Ray Borg Bubba my former captain,
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: twenty third year in the league. Alex Ovechkin is thirteenth
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: year in the league. It it's hard to win a
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: Stanley Cup, but you also have the right You also
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: have to have the right talent mix around you too,
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: Like Rome wasn't built in a day. I think the
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: leafs are getting closer, but we've seen and I think
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: Vegas has really fooled people. Vegas came the league, they
• 9:46
  Speaker 4: won a couple in six years and year in the
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: whole microwave mentality, I think that's an outlier.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: That's not the normal.
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: Seattle right, very hard right, And look at Conor McDavid's
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: taking him a while to get there too. You've got
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: to take these steps I think the Leafs took a
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: step this year. They've got some pieces there, but I
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: do believe they'll look drastically different next year.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really do.
• 10:04
  Speaker 4: And Caroline has been building for a while now too,
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: so it's almost time for them to take that next
• 10:08
  Speaker 4: step as well.
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: We've been waiting for Carolina right Rod Branda Moore has
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: taking his team beyond round one for seven straight years
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: now back into the Copwick Jordan