The Most Hated Man in Hockey (Update)

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Brad Marchand contains multitudes. Sure, the Boston Bruins winger could be called the most hated man in hockey…he’s served two suspensions in just this season. But Marchand is also one of the top scorers in the NHL, integral to the Bruins’ offense. He’s known for cheap shots, punching opposing players, licking faces, and was once given the nickname “Little Ball of Hate” from former President Barack Obama. With the Bruins facing elimination from the playoffs tonight, Greg Wyshynski tells us what Marchand can do to help his team, and explains his complicated legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greg Wyshinski, right now the Boston Bruins are pretty desperate, right?
0:04.6	Their backs are against the wall.
0:05.9	They face the Carolina Hurricanes tonight in Boston and Game 6 of their series and the
0:10.4	Hurricanes are up 3 to 2.
0:13.2	And it feels safe to say that if the Bruins are going to do this thing, if they're going
0:16.4	to force a game seven, it's going to be because of the guy that we have celebrated appropriately,
0:22.0	I think without hyperbole, as the most hated man in hockey.
0:26.4	Oh, I can confirm, Pablo, that Brad Martian is in fact the most hated man in hockey.
0:33.9	In April, the NHLPA came out with a poll.
0:36.9	It asked which player do you least enjoy playing against but with most want on your team?
0:42.6	And fired away, the winner of that poll was Brad Martian to the Boston Bruins.
0:48.8	So this guy, the left winger for the Bruins, a star and a villain.
0:54.2	What is he done in this series so far?
0:56.4	How is his life fit?
0:58.5	So the Bruins lost games one and two of this series against Carolina by combined score
1:02.4	of 10 to 3.
1:03.7	The first two games were in Raleigh and Martian only had one assist in those games.
1:08.5	But he did leave his mark almost literally.
1:10.8	He was fined $5,000.
1:12.4	The maximum allowed under the NHL collective bargaining agreement for slashing Goli, Peter
1:19.2	Cuchekov in game two.
1:40.1	Then the action went back to Boston and Martian, while his game woke up, he had a goal and
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