Brad Marchand talks ‘mind of a goldfish’ & Patrice Bergeron’s return?! | The Pat McAfee Show

Brad Marchand talks ‘mind of a goldfish’ & Patrice Bergeron’s return?! | The Pat McAfee Show

Pittsburgh Penguins are the hockey team that represent the greatest City not only in Pennsylvania but we’ll say the whole world Pittsburgh whoa okay greatest hockey franchise in the history of hockey not true not true not even in the history ofe we’re talking KHL the Norway HL the Swedish HL yeah

All of them they’re going to a city that has a very good hockey team okay damn right greatest regular season hockey team of all time that was a record they held last year we actually have a jersey hanging in the rafters to signify the Fantastic season that they had it’s

Legendary it’s hanging right above Boston Connor’s head because he was loud about these boys all year last year well look out they’re back ladies and gentlemen Brad marshan hey guys Brad thank you for taking time out of your life to join us tonight’s a massive one I know when

You’re playing the Penguins there’s probably a lot more you know Jitters anxiety fear things like that how are we six hours away from game time yeah know you nailed it uh a lot of fear anxiety I’m struggling to get through the day I don’t think I’m gonna eat uh but yeah

I’m excited should be good okay Brad let’s go back in time a little bit because I am a penguins fan I have seen and known you I feel like for a very very long time because of what you’ve been able to accomplish in the NHL on those phenomenal Boston Bruin teams at

One point your name was Brad Marshawn and everybody just knew you as the pest the Menace the guy’s going to Stir It Up and then also guy’s really goodl looking yeah MH true yeah were they saying that was that a part of it yeah that’s what I like to tell myself

Anyway super handsome handsome was they would say and then all of a sudden your name changed to some people called you the rat then all of a sudden your name would change to Brad Maran and and you’re the captain of the team now are you still the Menace the pest guy do you

Have to bury that down as you’re the captain as you’ve matured how do you see your playing style over your career here in the NHL yeah a little bit I mean it’s a lot of different things go into it when you’re the captain obviously you

Get you get to lead by example um you know and you really got to pay attention to that but you know also just being on the radar I think I’m at this point the most suspended player uh in the history of the game so congrats I don’t want to

Don’t want to continue going down that road so you got to try to clean it up here how’s the team this year obviously we hang that Banner uh we hung that banner last year to signify the greatest regular season of all time now obviously when the playoffs happen the way they do

Come on in the what’s that I mean let’s talk about the game at night okay all right anyways so you guys prob in at this point no we’re pass it you know rocket ships don’t come equipped with rearview Mir you know what I mean we

Move on but to say that you guys have been dominant seemingly from first game last year all the way through the end of the season this year same exact thing why do you think your guys’s team is so good so often you know cuz teams do this

A lot you guys don’t seem to do that much yeah no I mean we you know at the end of the day you try not to get caught up too much in in the regular season you know the the whole point of the season is to get a position in playoffs and to

Have an opportunity to play for the cup um you know and and you go on a run like we did last year and and how we started this season um you know it gets exciting you kind of get lost you know breaking records and and what it all ma what it

All means but at the end of the day whether you finish finish with winning every single game the season or um you finish eth as long as you’re in a playoff spot you know you’re playing for the same thing and and uh you know we experienced that uh firsthand last year

Um about focusing too much on that but I think just with the way our management and and ownership and and coaching staff um the way they bring guys in that believe in in our group and want to be part of a really good cult culture and

Want to be part of a winning team uh it allows us to be competitive each and every year and and allow us guys kind of come in and buy into to what we’ve built and what we continue to try to strive to do every day and and allow us to have a

Good recipe for Success we’ve heard stories epic stories about teams and when they travel having dinner maybe some adult beverages a lot of them a lot bottles of them and then just like rolling into the rink the next morning and like being expected to be hey this

Is what it is This Is How We Roll is it still that way and how do you build chemistry especially as the captain for the Bruins team when there’s a lot of different languages in that locker room isn’t there yeah there is a lot of different nationalities in the room um

But yeah I mean that’s part of being a good Pro uh you know when you do things together as a group and um you know sometimes night before a game or or you know after games whatever it is uh that’s part of it you got to show up and

And still expect it to do your job and you know it obviously some a much different schedule than U football and and where we uh play very frequently so you got to kind of have a a mind of a goldfish where You’ able to forget things very quickly and and uh move on

Uh and regroup but um yeah we always try to do different things that we’ve Incorporated uh one thing is just gratitude and uh be very grateful and and practice that every day about the position we’re in the opportunity we’re given and uh not just to be in the NHL

But to to be part of an organization like the one we are and and a team uh like we have and uh you know every year it changes quick and and guys move on and go to different teams and careers end and uh just trying to be in the

Moment and grateful for the opportunity we have and it’s something that we’ve been preaching for the last number of years and uh you know it’s it’s really worked well for our group yeah I’d say that was a phenomenal answer by the way there’s a man who’s a massive fan of your

Organization which brought up right all right yep you don’t know him Brad actually yeah yeah maybe I don’t know that is uh Boston Connor has a question for you Brad yeah Brad first of all it’s an honor thank you for everything you’ve done for the Boston Bruins uh and you

Know I’m apprciate it thank you I’m gonna thank you right now as well uh for kicking the [ __ ] out of the Penguins tonight just because they are no pressure a bottom yeah no pressure they’re a terrible franchise it doesn’t really matter but obviously being the captain the Boston Bruins massive deal

Original six team greatest franchise in the league but after you know the season that you guys had last year was there a little like son of a [ __ ] I got to replace B run after we go and win the most games in the history of the regular

Season and then also have you reached have have you guys talked a lot during the season just you know for a couple tips and you know hopefully you can kind of leave this one open perhaps is there a thought that you’ve kind of planted into patrice’s mind like hey if we do go

Back to the playoffs here you know there’s only four series we really need to get to to hoist that cup again if you thought about you know coming back yeah I know obviously there’s a lot of pressure uh following a guy like Bergie and not just Bergie but Z before that um

You know our last two captains have been two of the best captains not just for our our team but in the history of the game amen and uh you know to follow those shoes I I was very stressed and had a lot of anxiety about it uh but

They’re both good friends and and uh you know Bergie especially we built an incredible friendship uh we speak a lot not just you know hockey stuff but um you know just again typical friend stuff and and I talk to him all the time about

It and pick Z’s brain and a few other uh like Ray Bor reach out to me a bunch and and uh been great as well so I think that the guys in the organization that have come and gone and and really left a great legacy are so good and and really

Want to help uh to this day the team be very good and take a lot of pride in that and then yeah obviously Bergie is I I think he gets annoyed with how much I try to push him to to come back at some point but uh I think he’s excited about

You know his next step and and uh you know so I try to be too hard on him See’s a big deal did you get emotional whenever it got thrown on the old chest there sorry the see big deal did you get emotional I did yeah I I won’t lie it is

You know when I always like as I’m getting older and and you know I kind of watched my career go by when I I tend to go back to thinking a lot about when I was a kid and and I never ever would have in ision one being in the NHL and

And nor you know when you’re a kid growing up do you ever think about being a captain you just want to play in the NHL and and play hockey and do what you love and then you know to to be able to have had the career I do or I’ve had and

And um never expected even till last year that there’d be potential being a captain so when I first saw it on there it was it was emotional it was pretty special to see uh take a lot of pride in that and uh you know being a player for

This organization and and uh yeah it was special it was very special yeah because as somebody who’s watch you from another team I’ve always said man that’s the guy you want on your team yeah for for sure and it’s nice you know that the Boston Bruins are like agreed like yeah this is

This is the guy we want not only on our team but to represent who our entire team is you’ve been fun man the Bruins have been fun with you on the team not just in Boston though ton has a question for you yeah Brad I got a question for

You obviously you and Sid both being from Nova sco you guys played on the same lined together for Team Canada Sid has actually said that he that you were basically his his favorite teammate on that team cuz you know you’re a lot better to play with than against um so

Like when you guys are going against each other tonight will you give them a little bit more because of how tight you guys have become or will you not P pested him as much or or you give him an extra face wash because I believe he’s

Got a black eye and a cut on his face right now yeah what the hell happened to his face give him another one he didn’t do the dish to his life hey hey I understand he’s on same thing here no I uh you know s he

He’s incredible uh just a great guy I’ve been actually I grew up watching him play uh was every year I was supposed to play against him he was so good he’d move up and um the guy that my dad actually would tell me to try to copy

Some of the things he would do and and part of my game and the way I protect pux and stuff is because I watched him growing up but um you know he he’s not a guy that I like to try to get involved with on the ice he’s one of those guys

That smart you make a bad take over a game you know so uh I try to you know pick on guys that can’t do that um but they got a few of them on the team so I try to just keep quiet against them hey

Uh how about you just take the night off to honor no nope kick his ass honor you watch him growing up fight him we still go for brag and rights right so like I can’t take it easy but I just will leave him alone you going after Gino then let’s

Get a little let’s get a little strategy do you guys you got to be careful against the Russian like some of them are so tough and you just don’t know which ones it is so you got to leave those guys alone yeah and sometimes Gino will like get pissed and then sometimes

He won’t it’s like some some games you’re watching it’s like oh Gino’s not having any [ __ ] today like that I’ve seen him get mad a couple times and I don’t want to go after him so how much how much do you watch film like obviously the pens team the core has

Been around a long time new guys come in obviously we trying to get a little bit speed how much film do you guys get to watch on this like how rigorous your schedule is both traveling and practicing how much film and stuff yeah so you know that that’s I think one of

The things that probably really differ from the the NFL is like we we do a little bit of video about other teams but a lot of our video is about our game because that that’s the consistency with our season is that we can always try to improve upon our structure and what

We’re trying to do and implementing games where uh you know we might take a couple clips of maybe six clicks clips of of Pittsburgh and say Here’s what their Tendencies are got it um but you know for the most part we got a focus on

This is a group of what we’re going to do and um because you can Implement that in every game so it’s really just quick snippet and then you know sometimes teams will uh do things different in game and and maybe you change a couple things up but you know the biggest thing

For us is the execution and the compete that you bring every night that’s where your your separators are um in our game and and that’s what we try to really focus on I I got sources inside the uh Pittsburgh Penguins but they’re doing nothing that they’ve done all year oh

Right yeah new game plan yeah just want yeah Ty has a question for you Brad yeah Brad it seems like every like the last five years maybe there’s been a new guy who’s come in the league whether it’s like McDavid and obviously Bard this year where everyone’s saying or the

Media is like hey this guy’s the next one and then they produce you know almost instantly it seems like how cognizant are you guys of that kind of stuff in terms of like how skilled these young guys are coming in and then in terms of like talking [ __ ] do you look

Forward to like kind of blessing these young guns with like a welcome to the NHL moment like Hey listen pal this this ain’t the miners anymore this is where the big boys play yeah but Dar more specifically yeah yeah you know that that definitely uh is something I think

We would look forward to more in the past nowadays you got to really be careful there’s so many things like so many mics around now that you really got to kind of watch it but um you know definitely with the you know being physical on guy like young guys that are

Coming in that you know get a lot of hype around them you could tend to a lot of those High high-end guys are have a a lot of arrogance and and uh you know you kind of want to put them in their place and let them know like you know it’s not

Junior anymore you want to teach him a thing or two but um you know you definitely have to be aware of them because they’re skilled but the one thing that’s kind of slip in a little bit is the physicality in the game and and where you know some of the younger

Guys that will come in and really uh make a name for themsel is they have that highend skill but they’re like a big Power Forward too and and the more you can kind of really focus on that because it’s leaving you can make yourself an extremely Valuable Player

Especially come playoff time those are the kind of guys that you want on your team and you need on your team to win where you know a lot of the soft skill that comes in they’re they’re you know extremely skilled and talented but you can push them out come playoff series so

You a lot of these high-end uh plays that you seen in the regular season you don’t see it come playoff time uh that stuff gets pushed out pretty quick soft skill I like that’s how you guys describe oh he’s one of the soft skill guys coming in oh can’t wait to play him

Let’s see how he uh welcome to not only your generation’s best player uh about the Next Generation Up’s best player the Next Generation up best player how old are you Brad 35 damn thanks for it did yeah how many years how many years you been in

There and what’s going on there you just want to let them know that uh I’m gon box him out here just in case yeah box though there there’s not a whole lot going on there you know I’m just trying to trying to get them them to get a

Penalty because this guy already jumped on the ice you know so smart there Ed H you’re the best dude the absolute best what’s the afternoon look like we’re napping I heard the NHL nap’s a big deal that’s what’s next yeah that’s a big one uh gonna eat take a nap um you

Know it ranges from an hour or two hours depending on the guy uh and then we’ll get up get to the rink at like 4: 4:30 for a 7:00 game and uh and go to battle what’s your nap hour hour half you know what I started doing I was always

Playing around with it um but I I’ve started giving myself like two and a half hours and then I just set I set Al alarm make sure I’m not late and then let my body uh have what it needs you know some days a half an hour some days

Is to depending on you know our travel and and how slept the days before that um so just let’s the body kind of do itself yeah let the universe figure it out I think today you should sleep four or five hours n seven Mr game show up n yeah I I don’t

Know what type of accountability is up there in Boston but if you show up late I don’t know if you’re playing you know so yeah anyways good luck Tonight

On The Pat McAfee Show, Boston Bruins’ captain Brad Marchand joins the program.
0:00 Welcome aboard Brad!
2:00 Is Marchy still the menace?
3:00 Why the B’s so strong over the past few seasons
4:30 Chemistry building in the NHL
6:20 How to build off last season
9:30 Playing with an against Sidney Crosby
11:20 Watching film in the NHL
12:45 New stars in the league
15:30 Marchand’s nap time
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